Phone Safety & Parental Controls: Episode 189

This episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast is an interview with Jack Hughes, an 18-year-old Parent Tech Support Expert. We discuss how to set up parental controls, why communication with our kids is key to setting tech limits and teaching kids how to use technology, and how to help kids engage in the real world instead of just interacting on screens.

We talk about:

• 5:00 What parents should know about Parental Controls on technology
• 7:09 Layering in different levels of parental controls
• 11:00 What parents should do in addition to parental controls
• 12:00 How to determine the age kids should get a phone
• 13:00 How to respect your kids’ phone privacy
• 16:25 How parents can teach kids to manage their own devices
• 24:30 How to facilitate children to have lives outside of screens
• 28:00 How to start limiting use of phones and screens
• 33:00 How to shift from online connection to in person connection
• 35:00 The common loopholes kids find to get around parental controls

Download the episode transcript HERE

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• Jack Hughes’ website https://parenttech.support/

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