digital shepherds presents: parenting in the digital age

Parenting In The Digital Age

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Mobile: Where The Wild Things Are

What Are They Doing On Mobile?

• Sharing: pics and vids • Exploring: pics and vids • Following/Consuming:

@kingbach, @kyliejenner, @pewdiepie, @kingbach, @kyliejenner, @mileycyrus, @tobuscus, @genuineguy_, @mrgiveyogirlback, @9gag, @MatthewEspinosa, @davidlopez, @BrandonCalvillo, @Mr_Carterr, @Lance210, @nashgrier, @danbilzerian

• “Hooking Up” using geolocation


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Private Photo Vault, Best Secret Folder


Saturday morning network cartoons are dead!

Rated R: While YouTube allows for tagging of explicit material, there is currently no facility in place to do the same for app-based content.

PC: Where The Wild Things Are

What Are They Doing On PC?

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Parenting Toolbox: PIDA

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Parenting Toolbox: PIDA

If you aren’t having conversations with your children that make you a bit uncomfortable, you may not be having the right conversations. @tshakaarmstrong #PIDA

Parenting Toolbox: PIDA• Set clear guidelines and

boundaries.• No computers, cell phones,

tablets in the bedroom at bedtime.

• Laptops use with screen facing the door.

• Routers as a kill switch for all traffic in the home.

• OurPact as a kill switch for tablets.

Wireless RoutersWhen you have multiple devices in your home that you’d like to connect to the internet, the best way to facilitate that connection is to use something called a router. A router takes one internet connection and allows more than one device to access it at the same time.

Generally, we recommend a wireless router because it is easier for multiple devices in your home to share one connection when done over a wireless connection. For example, and depending on the age of your children, you may have: a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a gaming console such as a XBOX360 or PS3, a portable gaming system such as a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP and an iPod Touch or cell phone which has wifi built-in. All of these devices have the ability to connect to the internet and having to do so over a wired connection would have your living space looking like a bird’s nest at some point. A wireless connection however would allow you to forgo the nest of wires and share your internet connection, from just about anywhere in your average size home or apartment, with several devices.

Fortunately for many who are considering their internet options, Internet Service Providers are now including wireless internet devices when you subscribe to their services and they’ll even set up your home wireless network for you*.

*Check with your local provider as some may charge a fee for wireless internet setup.

Wireless Routers

The Digital Playpen- KIDZUI

The Digital Playpen- YourSphere

Third party cellphone parental controls

Third party cellular parental control services often utilize a web based component with an application which resides locally on the child’s handset.

Some of these applications are cellular web browser replacements only, but will generally offer greater control over filtering than what cell service providers offer.

The third party parental control applications which offer the most robust options for parents are generally subscription based and carry with them a monthly fee, while browser replacements are generally a one-time fee.

Parental control applications we recommend are: MyMobileWatchdog.com and TeenSafe. Great browser replacement offerings for the iPhone/Touch/Pad are: internetsafety.com and NetNanny.

Keep them on task with OurPact for iOS

Child Tracking: Sprint Family Locator

Parental Controls- Net Nanny

Photo Geo-tagging

App Purchasing

App Purchasing/Restrictions

Photo Geo-tagging

Video Games

Video Game Ratings Explained

EARLY CHILDHOODTitles rated EC (Early Childhood) have content that may be suitable for ages 3 and older. Contains no material that parents would find inappropriate.

EVERYONETitles rated E (Everyone) have content that may be suitable for ages 6 and older. Titles in this category may contain minimal cartoon, fantasy or mild violence and/or infrequent use of mild language.

EVERYONE 10+Titles rated E10+ (Everyone 10 and older) have content that may be suitable for ages 10 and older. Titles in this category may contain more cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, mild language and/or minimal suggestive themes.

TEENTitles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language.

MATURETitles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language.

ADULTS ONLYTitles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity.

RATING PENDINGTitles listed as RP (Rating Pending) have been submitted to the ESRB and are awaiting final rating. (This symbol appears only in advertising prior to a game's release.)

What’s In a Game

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What’s In a Game

DLC – Downloadable Content

Downloadable content is simply: extra content for a video game which may be downloaded for that game from the game producer’s website or enthusiast sites. Most of the time, this content adds new levels to the games or new characters but in some cases it adds some adult options which may not have been part of the game at the time of purchase.

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