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Our Complete Guide to Mac’s Screen Time (For catalina)

Our Complete Guide to Mac's Screen Time (For catalina) The Benefits of Mac Parental Controls Apple now offers its latest parental controls on MacBooks and on MacDesktops. Known as Screen Time, parents can make sure their children's computers are set up with certain boundaries -- the main benefits include: Setting a Down Time to make sure the computer goes to bed Setting web-browsing restrictions to [...]

Our Complete Guide to OurPact

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me Our Complete Guide to OurPact Why OurPact? What sets OurPact apart from Apple's Screen Time is: The Parent-friendly user interface The easy Block [...]

The Many Scenarios of Screen Time

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me The Many Scenarios of Screen Time Screen Time Comes in All Different Shapes and Sizes The scenarios below can give you a flavor for [...]

Our Complete Guide to the Major Content Providers

Our Complete Guide to the Major Content Providers TABLE OF CONTENTS D.N.T. #1 How to set up parental controls on Netflix Netflix takes a different approach while setting Parental Control. There soft controls and then there are hard controls. Under Soft controls, Netflix allows you to have multiple profiles and set maturity level for each individual profile that will determine the content [...]

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Our Guide to Apple Screen Time Set Up

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me Our Guide to Apple Screen Time Set Up What is Apple's Screen Time? Apple’s latest functionality allows parents to manage their kids digital access [...]

Our Complete Guide to Web Filtering and Browsers

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Our Complete Guide to Apple’s Parental Controls (iOS 11)

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me Our Complete Guide to Apple's Parental Controls (iOS 11) #1 Set up Family Sharing Before setting up parental controls, known as Restrictions, we recommend setting [...]

Our Complete Guide to Mac’s Parental Controls

Our Complete Guide to Mac's Parental Controls Mac's Parental Controls Apple offers several features to help parents manage their child's computer usage. A few points to note: Parents can only manage controls from the computer itself; there is no way to alter settings from the convenience of your phone The functionality is fairly rudimentary and operates independently of Screen Time parental controls [...]

Our Complete Guide to Apple’s Family Sharing

Our Guide to Apple's Family Sharing What Is Family Sharing and Why You Should Set It Up In order to take full advantage of Apple's Screen Time functionality, parents must set up Family Sharing. The main benefits of Family Sharing include: The ability to manage Screen Time from your phone Paying just once for content purchased or downloaded through the iTunes or App Store [...]

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Parental Controls – Amazon Fire

Reposted: from Bark Parents really like the Amazon Fire tablet. It’s equipped with one of the most comprehensive sets of parental controls on the market. Kids can use it to read Kindle ebooks, play games, watch movies, and use social media. Here’s how to set them up: Option 1: Basic parental controls Swipe down from the top of the screen […]

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Our Complete Guide to TikTok

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me Our Complete Guide to TikTok What are the key features of TikTok? Variety Show Appeal The random collection of videos always set to music [...]

An Introduction to Bark

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me An Introduction to Bark What is Bark? Bark is a social media monitoring tool that helps parents stay on top of their children's online activity. [...]

Our Complete Guide to Facebook

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me Our Complete Guide to Facebook What are the key features of Facebook? Newsfeed See your friends’ latest activity, videos being viewed within your social [...]

Our Complete Guide to Youtube Kids

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me Our Complete Guide to Youtube Kids What is Youtube Kids? YouTube Kids is intended for children under 13 and is a safer alternative than [...]

Our Complete Guide to Snapchat

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me Our Complete Guide to Snapchat What are the key features of Snapchat? Snaps It’s SO easy for teens to take photos and share them [...]

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Our Complete Guide to Instagram

Our Roadmaps Screen Time Social Media Our Collection Our Toolkit Gold Star Articles Best Practices Our Guides Our Tech Tips iConcierge Services Our Q & A Line What Can I Ask? How It Works Invite Me Our Complete Guide to Instagram What are the key features of Instagram? InstaFeed Teens can see the best moments in their friends lives, follow [...]

Our Complete Guide to YouTube

Our Complete Guide to YouTube What are the key features of YouTube? Easy Access Kids can access YouTube through mobile devices, Kindles, Smart TVs, gaming consoles, and even the Echo Show. If parents don’t want their kids to watch YouTube, they need to know how to block access on each of these devices. Endless Content There are over 5 billion [...]

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