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Screen Time Pros
- Jul 17, 2020
- 1 min
Are you sure you know what your kids are doing?
Leveraging parental controls like Screen Time or Circle can be extremely helpful for parents to understand how technology is being utilized and when. Click the image below to better understand how beneficial it is to drill down on your kids usage. If you see apps that you previously didn't approve, its time to review their device settings. Screen Time Pros is here to help. If you aren't sure you have all of your settings dialed in, or you have conflicting rules setup across C
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Screen Time Pros
- Jun 9, 2020
- 1 min
Online Activity - Digital Fingerprint
Choices our children make today online can and will follow them around forever. Any content transmitted from an email, tweet, snap, FB, or gram can at minimum be captured as a screen shot on the receiving end. Bullying, derogatory remarks, inappropriate image sharing can be harmful to our kids future as well as the person on the receiving end. Take time to have a healthy conversation with your children about their choices online. Follow and review their online activity. Lever
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Screen Time Pros
- May 22, 2020
- 1 min
Google Safe Search and YouTube Restricted Mode
Are you leveraging Safe Search and Restricted mode for your children? See below for more details on these two critical features. We can help ensure all of your kids devices are setup properly. Schedule anytime - Screen Time Pros "SafeSearch is a tool provided by Google, DuckDuckGo, and Bing that eliminates sexually explicit content from these sites' search results. YouTube's Restricted Mode is similar, but for their videos. Note: Circle is only capable of enforcing YouTube's
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Screen Time Pros
- May 21, 2020
- 2 min
Cyber-Crime Against Children?
Cyber crime has increased during the pandemic and they aren’t just targeting parents. Block inappropriate apps, fine tune parental controls and schedule downtime for quality sleep. The old saying, nothing good happens after midnight still applies in the digital world. We can help - Screen Time Pros #digitalparenting #internetsafety #cybercrime #ScreenTimePros The folks over at BitDefender had the following to say about the topic: "The sudden shift to remote work has forced mi
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Screen Time Pros
- Apr 29, 2020
- 3 min
Excessive Screen Time Causing Negative Effects on Our Children
It doesn't take a professional to notice excessive screen time is taking a toll on our children. The professionals are however speaking out and urging parents to take control of the situation before it gets out of hand. Screen Time Pros is here to help set healthy screen time limits and downtime during the night. "Dr. Alice Holland, a clinical neuropsychologist at Children's Health and UT Southwestern said it's important for parents to check in with their kids and try their b
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Screen Time Pros
- Apr 12, 2020
- 2 min
Kids, Digital Wellness & Surviving COVID-19
Kim Muench - Certified Parent Coach published the following article in our local newspaper and had the following to say about digital wellness in our homes today. Screen Time Pros is ready to help any family looking to establish or optimize their digital parenting plan. We have remote and on-site options available. "Adam has been an IT consultant for more than 25 years, supporting individuals, small to medium-sized businesses and several corporate enterprise environments. In
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Screen Time Pros
- Mar 13, 2020
- 1 min
Shocking Content on Your Children's Devices?
Unsupervised cell phone and device usage is concerning one assistant principal in middle school. He shared his concerns with Good Morning America. We started Screen Time Pros to help parents get ahead of the issue before it becomes a problem. Feel free to reach out to us to see how Screen Time Pros can help your family. Check out the full article and video on GMA below: Including a snippet from the article: "Parents. I am an assistant principal in a middle school (grades 6-8)
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