Clear, useful advice for privacy, communication, boundaries, and safer online play—without the fearmongering.
When most parents hear “private messaging,” they picture texting between friends. Sure, that is definitely part of it, but in a kids’ game, private messaging means something a little different, and the risk it creates is worth understanding before your…
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Every time your kid logs into a game, the game is making a decision behind the scenes about what to do with their information, and most parents never get shown that decision because nobody asks them to look. It’s not…
Every parent I know has looked at that little letter in the corner of a game and felt a small wave of relief. E for Everyone, good, that one’s fine. That instinct is actually a good one, the ESRB has…
There’s an old line about free products, if you’re not paying for it, you’re the product, and it’s stuck around because it’s usually true. But flip that instinct around for a second, because a game costing money doesn’t automatically buy…
The single easiest way to move a kid from a safe conversation to a risky one is almost stupidly boring. It’s not a threat, it’s not anything dramatic, it’s just five words: “let’s talk somewhere else instead.” And it works…
There’s a moment during account setup in a lot of kids’ games where you get asked for an email address, and if that email address belongs to your seven year old instead of you, something has already gone sideways before…
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