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Can Mobile Phones Harm Children?
There are currently over 60 million mobile phones being used in the UK and they continue to increase in popularity, as new features become available. Just as you...
Computer Gaming Health and Fun
Younger children as well as teens can easily become dependent on computer and console games. Because of this many parents are reluctant to allow their children to play...
Cyber Bullying: The Facts and How to Prevent it
Improvements in technology have brought many changes, but while most of them are positive, the advent of cyber bullying is less favourable. But...
Digital Baby Monitors: Are they Safe?
Children may be more vulnerable from exposure to any form of electro magnetic energy, such as that generated by mobile telephones and to a degree...
Gadget Safety for Older Kids and Young Teens
In today’s technological world, it’s a natural part of life for older children and young teenagers (commonly known as tweens) to have gadgets. In...
Games Console - How Much Time is Safe?
There has been a great debate recently about how much time is safe for children to spend at game consoles and playing video games. However, like...
How to Protect Your Kids' Privacy on Facebook
Social networking has become hugely popular in recent years and the chances are your kids will be clamouring to be allowed to get onto Facebook...
How Useful are Children's Search Engines?
For homework and home entertainment, recipes and reviews, music and messages, children seem to use the Internet more every day. Unfortunately,...
The Internet and Children: Access and Usage
The Internet, for children and adults alike, is a hugely important communications medium. Children now use the internet to help with homework (in...
The Internet and Children: Advice for Parents
In this article we discuss steps which you can take to ensure that your child has a positive and enriching online experience. We have covered...
The Internet and Children: The Risks
The Internet offers many positive educational and social benefits to young people, but unfortunately there are risks, too. As in any other area of life, children and...
The Internet and Children: The Warning Signs
The risks that being online might pose to children have been covered in our previous articles, but what if they're already at risk? How can you...
Tracking Your Children Online
These days kids think being online is a right, not a privilege. It's how they play games, download music, and communicate with their friends. But however so...
Which Search Engines are Safe for Kids?
There are a number of search engines which offer child-friendly content only. They achieve this by filtering out inappropriate content which you,...
