Technology is the future, from apps and mobile technology to gaming, photography and online safety.
A lot of parents struggle with how to help their kids balance productive and “just for fun” hobbies. After all, the modern world is full of distractions that have the potential to adversely affect a child’s or teen’s development, social skills, and mental health. One of those myriad distractions that parents worry about is video … Read more
Despite half (50%) of children aged between five and ten learning to code at school, only one in five (20%) parents know how to, making most parents ill-equipped to help their children with tech homework, according to a new coding report released today by consumer robotics and AI company, Anki, makers of the UK’s best-selling toy … Read more
It is no secret that children are curious. Even as infants, they tend to act on instincts of curiosity when exploring new things. In the spirit of discovery, interest doesn’t end there. As children grow into pre-teens and teenagers, they’re more exposed to an abundance of unfiltered technology that can act as a new world … Read more
I wish you could have seen the look on Ollie’s face when he found out that he was being sent a Vtech Star Wars BB-8 Camera Watch. I honestly was kicking myself for not having a camera at the ready #mumfail but I just didn’t expect the reaction that he gave. You would thought I … Read more
Just when you think you have got this whole parenting lark figured how, someone throws a curve ball at you and you feel completely helpless again. I have heard myself mention to a few people recently that they didn’t prepare you for the junior/teen years of parenting when they hand you a cute little baby … Read more
For as long as I have had a ‘home office’ I have had Epson printers. Back in 2016, we reviewed the Epson EcoTank ET-2550 which is still going strong today. Despite printing on it most days for school projects, photographs for home or work documents for me the ink has never had to be topped … Read more
FACEBOOK and apps owned by Facebook are used by more than half of online groomers where police disclosed which method predators used, NSPCC has revealed.
In March 2018, Under Armour announced that over the month of February of this year, approximately one hundred and fifty million MyFitnessPal users had their accounts hacked into and their data stolen. Fortunately, the data captured by the hackers consisted only of the users’ names and email address. There were no claims according to which … Read more
Chaperhome, for that time in every parents life where we need to allow our children the freedom to spread their wings and venture from home without our guidance and supervision. For Will that has been for a number of years now, he has his mobile phone so we have a means of contact but asking … Read more