The Rise of Kidfluencers – What Parents Need to Know

Kidfluencers are children who’ve gained significant online followings by creating content on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram—often featuring toy reviews, family vlogs, or quirky challeng

on June 25, 2025

How to Choose the Right Parental Control App: 5 Key Features to Look For

A parental control app is a digital tool like Mobicip that helps parents monitor, manage, and guide their children’s online activities across smartphones, tablets, and computers. These apps can perfor

on June 23, 2025

New Laws for Online Safety: How Governments Are Protecting Minors

Laws for online safety are being introduced worldwide to protect minors from the growing risks they face in digital spaces. This is critical given the amount of time children and teens are spending on

on June 18, 2025

AI Deepfake Scams Targeting Youth: How to Spot & Prevent Them

Deepfake scams targeting children and teens are on the rise, with AI-generated videos and voice clips being used to manipulate, deceive, and extort. The popular British science-fiction series Black Mi

on June 11, 2025

Online Grooming & Platform Accountability: What Needs to Change

Online grooming—where predators manipulate children through digital platforms—has become a growing threat, raising urgent questions about the accountability of the very platforms that enable this abus

on June 07, 2025

Parental Phubbing: How Ignoring Kids Impacts Their Development

Portmanteaus can be odd little things—word mashups that sometimes make us smile and sometimes make us think. One of the more recent and revealing ones is phubbing, short for “phone snubbing.” It descr

on June 03, 2025

AI Beauty Filters: Helping Kids See Through Digital Illusions

“No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl,” Marilyn Monroe once said. Those words, haunting in their simplicity, reflect a time when beauty was observed, not edited. Today, a child do

on May 30, 2025

Digital Drama at School: When Should Parents Step In?

School drama is nothing new. Written as early as the 1850s, Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield described the social conflicts, bullying, and peer pressure that children faced in school settings. These

on May 29, 2025

Is Spotify Safe for Kids? What Parents Need to Know

Spotify is a Swedish music streaming platform that was launched in 2006. “If music be the food of love, play on.” – Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. And on we played. Indeed, today, it is difficult to be l

on May 21, 2025

Group Chat Gossip: Monitoring Private Messaging Without Invading Privacy

Group chat gossip is not a new concept. According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the noun “chat” emerged around 1520, initially referring to ‘“’chatter, frivolous talk.’ By the 1570s, it meant ‘f

on May 20, 2025

Digital Footprints Don’t Fade: What Your Child Is Leaving Behind 

“Lives of great men all remind usWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints on the sands of time.”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, A Psalm of Life.Longfellow probably didn’t

on May 19, 2025