Guides
Your teen's school laptop: filters, monitoring, alerts
Filtering, monitoring and alerting tools on school-issued devices do different jobs: the named products, and what parents should ask before a laptop goes home.
Desk
Review Desk
Side-by-side work on teen safety parenting, held to the same conditions each time.
Rules
Reporting resources laws: selected rules for parents
Reporting resources laws shape platform, school, and regulator duties. This overview surveys selected rules for parents across five jurisdictions.
Costs
Five invented screen time households: failed first attempts, smaller changes, unresolved parts
Screen time habits in five invented households: the first attempt that failed, the smaller change that worked, and what stayed unresolved in each.
Maintenance
Screen-Time Habits Risks: 5 Parental Moves That Backfire
Screen time habits risks can come from a parent's response. See five common moves that can cost trust, support, visibility, or a rule's credibility.
Industry
6 things about screen-time habits rules worth your time
Screen-time habits rules come in four layers, only one of them yours: reading a school policy, seeing platform defaults, and writing rules that last.
Guides
Mental wellbeing tools for worried parents: four kinds, and their limits
Four kinds of mental wellbeing tools for worried parents, the named products in each, and the limits that decide whether any belongs in your house.
Costs
Self-esteem and body image laws cover adverts, but nothing a teenager scrolls
Self-esteem and body image rules: which bodies govern adverts, disclosure, platforms and schools, and why no rule reaches what a feed actually does.
Industry
A self-esteem and body image checklist for the feed: mute, unfollow
A self-esteem and body image checklist for the feed: how a parent can show a teen mute and unfollow controls without a confrontation or a consequence.
Industry
Anonymous apps in New York City high schools, NGL, Yik Yak and the First Amendment
Teen safety in NYC high schools: how NGL and Yik Yak anonymous threats are handled, First Amendment limits, and written demands parents can make.
Rules
How COPPA and FERPA actually protect your teen's data at school and online
Social media safety for parents and teens starts with knowing what COPPA and FERPA cover, where the under-13 line falls, and what the FTC actually enforces.
Rules
Denver and Colorado youth social media rules, age verification and what parents must know
Teen safety in Colorado now turns on state youth social media rules, Denver age-verification fights, and federal COPPA limits. Here is what families must do.
Rules
How Florida and California school cellphone bans work, and how to prepare your teen
Social media safety for parents and teens starts at school: Florida's HB 379 and HB 1105, California's AB 272 and AB 3216, district policies and a phone-free routine.
Guides
Reporting cyberbullying and sextortion, the NCMEC CyberTipline and local police explained
Teen safety reporting runs through the NCMEC CyberTipline, the FBI IC3, local police and your school district. Here is what each body does with a report.
Rules
Utah, Arkansas and California social media age check laws and what parents may need to show
Teen safety: how Utah, Arkansas and California social media age check laws work, their status in 2026, and the documents parents may need to show.
Guides
Family agreements: five places the law reaches into a parent child agreement and where to look
Explains what a parent and child family agreement is not, the five places the law reaches in, and where to look up the rules that apply where you live.
Guides
How US parents can vet anonymous apps NGL and Yik Yak
A US parent's guide to vetting NGL and Yik Yak: what each anonymous app does, five questions to ask vendors, evidence to request, and what agreements should cover.
Costs
Deepfake nudes teen safety parents: response cost examples
Deepfake nudes teen safety parents: illustrative response costs, free reporting steps, and unpriced counseling or legal escalation.
Reviews
Password manager for teens: US comparison of Dashlane vs Bitwarden
A password manager for teens comparison: Dashlane and Bitwarden priced in USD, family plans, US support, setup steps, and the recovery gap neither tool closes.
Reviews
Family agreements checklist: the adults' side before signing
A family agreements checklist for the adults before anyone signs: settle your position, bind your own side, and write fair consequences first.
Maintenance
Age by age guidance laws: how to tell rules apart
Age by age guidance laws refer to different kinds of rules, not one readiness test. Learn what each covers and where parents can check the current wording.
Industry
Age by age guidance policy template for families
An age by age guidance policy template for families: one shared agreement, age-specific suggestions for three stages, and prompts for a planned review.
Industry
How to open a conversation about cyberbullying without shutting it down
Cyberbullying: what it looks like from outside, how to open the conversation without closing it, four responses that backfire, and the first two days.
Guides
Four questions that sort ordinary mental wellbeing weather from something more
Mental wellbeing in the ambiguous middle: four questions that sort ordinary weather from something more, raising it, and getting help without a scene.
Reviews
Reporting resources: evidence and next steps
Reporting resources for online harm: preserve evidence, use Instagram’s report route, involve schools or police, and reach crisis support.
Features
Screen-time habits are not an hours problem, they are a displacement one
Screen-time habits are not an hours problem: what the use displaces, how they feel afterwards, whether they can stop, and why the night is the hard line.
Rules
Self-esteem and body image shift when a phone replaces the mirror
Self-esteem and body image: why a feed does something a mirror never did, what lands badly at home, and the point at which it needs someone else.
Reviews
Which replies actually keep a conversation about social media open?
Teen social media use in six things young people actually say, what sits underneath each one, and the replies that keep a conversation open or close it.
Costs
Teen social media use guide for parents
A teen social media use guide for parents, with pre-account conversations, platform privacy settings, safety tools, early support, and a month-three review.
Costs
Family Agreements: Set a Fair Rule for Parent Access
Family agreements can define parent access to a teen’s accounts, messages, and location, including routine limits, narrow exceptions, and follow-up.
Reviews
Parental controls buy time, not safety, and someone should plan the exit
Parental controls buy time rather than safety: the four layers and what each misses, the costs beyond money, and planning the removal from the start.
Features
Teen social media use: what to do when your teen tells you
Teen social media use goes wrong in ways that surprise parents. Settle the situation first, follow a set order, and decide about access last.
Guides
Age by age guidance: why there is no age table
Age by age guidance for teen social media explains why there is no fixed-age table and how readiness, behavior, and trust can guide each handover stage.