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Start Small
You'll notice this is another space on this website where we talk about "starting small". Small bites of conversation here and there sprinkled throughout your day in your routine helps you open up those doors to keep your kids thinking about being safe online. Small steps to create that trust. Small moments that builds into something larger.
Just like starting that tough conversation, learning to be tech savvy can start small! Learn one thing for this one moment to help you feel a little more prepared for the next. Below are some small steps you can take today to help protect your child in an ever growing tech-forward world.
Setting up OurPact (for iOS devices)
Installing Chrome Extensions (can block things like YouTube shorts!)
Working with Microsoft Edge family/parental controls
Don't know which one to use? Want to know which one rates tops? Check out PYE's review of the top parental control apps out there!
Using Parental Controls on devices in your family is easy. You simply have to take one small step forward!
Whole Home Safety
This can be an easy decision if you have a mixed group of technologies in your home. You and your spouse are Android, your kids got an Apple Watch from the grandparents for Christmas, and your home computer is an old Windows PC. Lots of different technology choices for us to have to learn different parental controls! This right here could be the reason that you decide Its all too much! But you don't have to. There's options out there for you to be able to protect your kids, yourselves, and even friends and family that come to visit and use your wifi.
AsusZen Wifi home router
Eero Pro6 (works with Alexa)
Gryphon Guardian router (highest rated)
Lets say you're already tech savvy and you'd like to have a bit more in-depth control of your entire home network. Meraki offers an amazing user friendly interface that allows you to block, set up time frames, and more at the click of a button.
No matter what you choose to go with for your home network protection, remember its our job as parents to help raise tech-healthy kids. Include them in the conversation about why you're installing a particular piece of equipment! Remind them that when friends come over with their devices, that they'll need to ask to be on the network and then you can protect them as well.
Remember, we are raising empowered kids to become tech-savvy adults!
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