How To Turn Off AirDrops and Keep Kids Safe
There’s a new trend taking over public spaces — crowded trains, schools, busy shopping centers, and airports. You’ll be reading an article on your iPhone or texting a friend, and then all of a sudden, you get a notification that someone wants to AirDrop you an image....
Bark Expands Alert Sensitivity Settings for Families and Schools
The team at Bark is thrilled to announce a remarkable breakthrough in how our customers receive alerts. Our newly expanded alert settings enable Bark for Families and Bark for Schools users to adjust how sensitive our detection algorithms are to potential issues. Put...
Educational Websites for Kids
As you kick off the first few weeks of summer break with your kids, you may be brainstorming ways to combat the “summer slide.” Recent studies show that kids of different ages can lose up to 30% of their school-year gains in math and reading! And while parents may not...
Is Reddit Safe? Parental Controls and Monitoring
**This post was updated on May 5, 2020** Even if you’re not familiar with Reddit, you’ve probably at least heard of it. Reddit is the fifth-most visited website in the U.S., in the same company as web giants Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Amazon. Its never-ending...
What to Do When You Get a Bark Alert
Whether you’re brand new to Bark or your family’s been using our monitoring service for a while, getting a Bark alert can be scary. As a parent, you always want to do what’s best for your child. But it’s not always easy to know exactly what that looks like! And while...
Helping School Safety Agents Do A Better Job
Parents love our Bark for Families service, but many people may not know that there’s an entire other half of Bark — our community-focused initiative, Bark for Schools. And they also may not know that it’s entirely free. K-12 public and private schools have access to...
Growing Up With Mutliple Food Allergies
People sometimes talk about multiple food allergies in a vacuum: the cold stats, the punchlines, the stories from a friend of a friend. But for the kids who have them, what is life really like? There are 5.9 million children living with food allergies in the U.S....
Food Allergies App Protects Kids In Unexpected Way
Right now, life-threatening food allergies affect one in every 13 children — this averages out to two in every classroom in the U.S. This has changed the way many kids grow up, but it’s also affected parents, too. We've created a video that shares one's mother's...
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