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How to Restrict Your Kid’s TikTok Access

How to Restrict Your Kid’s TikTok Access

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Photo: ChristianChan (Shutterstock)Earlier this year, TikTok implemented what it calls “Family Pairing,” a parental control tool that lets parents link their child’s TikTok account with their own, giving them direct control over the child’s privacy settings. Now, the short-form video platform app is further expanding the ways parents can, through this tool, restrict who their…
Warn Your Teens About the Benadryl Challenge

Warn Your Teens About the Benadryl Challenge

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Photo: Tashatuvango (Shutterstock)From the app that brought us the “Skull Breaker Challenge,” we apparently now have the “Benadryl Challenge,” in which young people take large amounts of the drug to trip out or hallucinate. The challenge is being blamed in the death of at least one teenager and the hospitalization of others.Some young TikTok users,…
What Parents Need to Know About Twitch

What Parents Need to Know About Twitch

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Photo: Allmy (Shutterstock)First, our kids decided it was exciting to watch other kids “unbox” new toys or other items. Now, watching other people play video games—or do, basically, whatever—live online is the height of entertainment. That’s why the live-streaming platform Twitch has grown in popularity; it is primarily used for live gaming streams, but more…
How to Talk to Teens About Weight Loss

How to Talk to Teens About Weight Loss

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You’ve probably heard adults complaining about the “quaran-ten” or even the “quarantine 15"—a quippy way of acknowledging the weight gained while we’ve been mostly isolated from the rest of humanity during the pandemic. I’ve heard similar sentiments from my friends and family and seen them sprinkled throughout my social media feeds. But it’s not just…
How Are Your Tweens Staying Active Right Now?

How Are Your Tweens Staying Active Right Now?

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Staying physically active during the pandemic has been a struggle for many of us. Gyms are shut down, bikes are sold out; even strolling through a park seemed like too much of a gamble for a while. But I have seen how it has been especially hard for the tweens who suddenly lost all their…
How to Get Your Kid Started on Stephen King

How to Get Your Kid Started on Stephen King

Photo: Jaclyn Youhana GarverMost Stephen King readers I know discovered the man in their youth. They stumbled on a copy of Cujo or Firestarter in a library book sale and carted it home, and then they couldn’t put it down, and then their tiny story-loving minds exploded. In the best way possible.There are plenty of…
What Parents Need to Know About TikTok’s New Parental Control Tool

What Parents Need to Know About TikTok’s New Parental Control Tool

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Photo: ShutterstockIf TikTok was having a moment before the pandemic, it’s really experiencing a surge in popularity and attention right now as tweens and teens everywhere are stuck at home and have nothing better to do than convince their parents to perform choreographed dances for social media. So the timing is good for the short-form…
How to Help Your Kids Build Self-Esteem

How to Help Your Kids Build Self-Esteem

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Photo: ShutterstockYour child really is a special, fantastic little human. They’re an incredibly poised dancer or outgoing in a way you could never be or gifted in math. You know your kids are great; you just want to make sure they know how great they are. And it’s natural to want to praise them for…
Warn Your Kids About This Dangerous TikTok Challenge

Warn Your Kids About This Dangerous TikTok Challenge

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Photo: ShutterstockIt should go without saying that something called the “Skull Breaker Challenge” is Not A Good Idea, but apparently nothing goes without saying these days. So if you’ve got tweens or teens, it’s worth a mention so they don’t unwittingly get knocked to the floor in a violent fall that may cause a concussion…
How to Present Your Kid to the Wild World of Social Network

How to Present Your Kid to the Wild World of Social...

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One of the trickiest parts of parenting is teaching our kids how to safely do things that have a great potential for harming them. It starts with teaching them to use scissors safely when they’re preschoolers, then sharp knives to cut their own food and, before we know it, how to drive a car. We…

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