Category — Internet Safety Tips

As parents we walk a fine line between offering our children freedom to good choices and responsibly monitoring their activity. In the digital parenting space, we fear that our teens and tweens are going to get hurt. We fear they are going to mix with the wrong crowd...

**This post was updated on April 19, 2021.** There’s one app that can strike fear into the hearts of many parents: Snapchat. Unsurprisingly, the app has been a kid-favorite since it debuted in 2011 because of its edgy reputation, disappearing messages, and interactive...

Despite steep legal ramifications, online sexual predators go to great lengths to trick kids into sending explicit images and texts. We've written pieces before on general safety tips to protect your kids online, and today we are sharing some of the methods online...

Today's guest post comes to us by the team at thebestvpn.com, an avid team of VPN users and internet security enthusiasts. As part of their enthusiasm for internet safety they have shared with Bark 10 ways to protect your kids online now.  As a parent today, it’s...

When your child ventures into the digital world, it’s natural to want to know what they’re doing so that you can protect them from questionable content and potentially dangerous situations. But should you monitor your child's messages without them knowing? Know the...

One of the greatest – and relatively newest – challenges facing parents today is how to ensure our children's online safety. With so many internet-connected devices available to them, it’s increasingly difficult to know what they’re seeing, who they’re meeting, and...

Text slang is code children use when communicating digitally, as a shorthand to decrease the amount of time used spent texting. Other times teens use text speak in order to have conversations of a mature nature without their parents, teachers, or guardians knowing the...

When you have a teenager, having a conversation with them isn’t always easy, especially when the conversation is on a serious topic like online safety. Yet more than 92% of teens are online, so it’s time to find out what your teen does know about online safety, and...