Combat Child Predators — Here Are 8 Ways You Can Help
**This blog post was updated on April 21, 2021.** Child predators are harming kids at absolutely staggering rates. About 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys is sexually assaulted during their childhood. Every 9 minutes, evidence of child sex abuse is corroborated or...
The Ultimate Guide to Gaming and Chatroom Safety
When kids of our generation said we were playing video games with friends, it meant two or three of us sitting around the TV playing Mario Kart or Tetris. When kids say they’re gaming with friends today, it can mean playing with dozens of friends across the city — or...
How TikTok is Changing What Social Media Means for Gen Z
When we look back at 2019, we’ll remember it as the year that TikTok exploded into the consciousness of Generation Z. Earlier this year, Bark explained what parents need to know about TikTok, as well as the dangers it can pose to kids. But as the platform has...
9 Reasons Bark is Great for iOS Families
If you’ve started looking into monitoring your child’s iOS device with Bark, you may have noticed that Apple products have certain limitations when it comes to monitoring. As of right now, no third-party apps on the market are allowed to monitor all of the activities...
Bark Now Monitors the Anonymous Messaging App Lipsi
Do you ever wish you could tell a friend they need to change without the risk of harming your relationship? Lipsi — the anonymous messaging app that’s available in the Google Play Store and the App Store — wants to make sharing anonymous opinions easier than ever....
What is DnD: How It Can Benefit Kids
If you’re like most people, Dungeons & Dragons probably conjures up images of warriors, wizards, and dwarves. But what is DnD? A game? An activity? Both? For millions of devoted players around the world, it’s actually an incredibly pro-social activity that...
Chatting With Strangers: Bark Now Monitors HOLLA
*As of Feb. 5, 2020, the HOLLA app is no longer available in the App Store. But if your child has an Android device or installed the app when it was still available in the App Store, they're potentially at risk of encountering these dangers.*Bark now monitors the...
What Parents Need to Know About Photo Roulette
What’s the first rule of looking at a photo on someone’s phone? You can’t swipe to see other images unless they say you can. If letting someone scroll through your Camera Roll at their leisure sounds like your own personal nightmare, you’ll be shocked to learn that a...
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