Personal Cyber Safety Help For Parents or Carers Anywhere at your convenience via Skype or FaceTime Leonie offers a personal consultancy for parents/carers who need help managing their children’s devices. ( please note Leonie does not coach children) Parental controls on mobile devices and computers to restrict your child’s access to dangerous apps and content.… Continue Reading
Apples latest operating system “Catalina” for P.C has a new parental controls feature which carries over from the mobile “Screentime” settings introduced in Apple iOS12. The new “Screentime” feature on Catalina can be used to monitor your own computer usage or to set up the included “Sceentime” parental controls on an Apple P.C. Screentime features… Continue Reading
At almost every parent talk, I get the same question. “My son/daughter seems to be able to get around all the blocks and locks I put on their devices, they don’t work, what can I do?” I always give the same answer. You have a compliance and trust issue, not a failed technology issue. Parental… Continue Reading
Book review of “Someone Should Have Told Me”, a book for parents to read and discuss with their young children, about being exposed to scary, weird stuff online by Holly-ann Martin from Safe 4 Kids. Often when I’m giving a presentation on Cyber Safety, I will recommend West Australian Child Protection Advocate Holly-ann Martin from… Continue Reading
The last few weeks as I’ve been holding Cyber Safety Seminars around some Sydney Schools, I’ve been hearing some alarming news from teachers. The increase in the uptake of adult social media apps and the subsequent behaviour on those apps has been an increasing problem. Some teachers believe that around 70% of stage 2 students… Continue Reading
The latest software update for Apple mobile devices like iPods, iPhones and iPads is iOS12. This new operating system has a new centralised moderation and parental control system called “Screen Time” this replaces the former parental control system known as “Restrictions”. “Screen Time” settings include all the previous parental controls and filtering you have previously… Continue Reading
Fortnite…if you haven’t heard about it then you are probably living under a nice sheltered non virtual rock. The media articles about this hugely popular online game that claims over 125 Million players worldwide, usually lean towards the problems that players have extracting themselves from the game. Some parents are almost tearing their hair out… Continue Reading
With screen time awareness and online safety now paramount in most families, setting boundaries and agreements around digital technology use for children for some parents, can be very frustrating. You may have one parent who wants their child to wait until 13years before setting up social media, the other parent is fine with them having… Continue Reading
Baby monitors that come with an app for your phone have been getting hacked for years. Default passwords and unsecured Wi Fi can result in your web connected baby monitor being hacked resulting in a live video of your child sleeping being streamed out to the internet on a strange websites where hackers get their… Continue Reading
A new video game called “Detroit: Become Human” to be released this year for Playstation 4 is causing quite an outrage, as you can see by this article I’ve linked to. This new game contains scenes involving murder and violent abuse of a child. In a movie, those scenes would be disturbing enough, but in… Continue Reading