Ritu Kandpal

The First Line of Defense — And the One Most Parents Skip Safe Search is one of the simplest, most effective things you can do to reduce your child’s exposure to inappropriate content online — and it takes less than five minutes to set up on every device they use. Yet most parents either don’t … Read more

It Doesn’t Stop When the School Bell Rings That is what makes cyberbullying fundamentally different from the bullying most parents experienced growing up. Traditional bullying happened at school and ended when your child came home. Cyberbullying follows them through the front door, into the kitchen, up to their bedroom, and onto the screen they look … Read more

Why Checking Matters More Than You Think Netflix’s parental controls are genuinely useful — but they are not perfect. Age-based filters can occasionally let content slip through, thumbnails and autoplay previews can expose children to mature imagery before a parent has reviewed a show, and older children are often more tech-savvy than parents realize when … Read more