ParentingPride Smartphone Text Messaging App Offers Families a Balance Between Trust and Privacy in a Mobile World

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ParentingPride is a new and innovative text message archiving app for Android smartphones created by parents for parents seeking to protect their children in a digital age.  Contrary to public belief phone companies do not back up text messages, but this new app creates an effortless archive to establish accountability in the cyber world.

ParentingPride was founded on the trust between parents and children and does not condone a child rights to privacy being infringed upon.  Archiving is a simple way for children to defend themselves with peers or share their story with adults when a problem begins to interfere with being a kid.  With ParentingPride, all messages are synced and archived within seconds capturing the deleted texts as well.  These records then provide an invaluable resource for both parents and children to settle any kind of texting dispute.  From displaying flagged messages to getting feedback from a community of other parents, ParentingPride provides an unprecedented means of helping to protect children in the ubiquitous world of text messaging.

"A gap between the verbal world and the texting world has become huge, leaving parents without a way to protect their children," said ParentingPride CEO Paul McMullen.  "ParentingPride is a simple, inexpensive, no-maintenance 'insurance policy' we hope families will find invaluable when the need arises for detailed and reliable records.  And we also hope that simply knowing everything is being archived will discourage dangerous texting behavior."

A parent or older child can easily login and find the text conversation to hold others accountable using a familiar search format.  The ParentingPride app can be used by children as a way to empower them with the ability to find text conversations where they were intimidated and hold others accountable.  Or parents can elect to monitor their children's activity.  Multiple child accounts can be linked to single parent.  And, if desired, individual child accounts or the complete parent account can be deleted with a full purge of all data.

Users can select categories of behaviors to flag and add their own specific keywords, including phone numbers, with search capability by name, phone number and text.  The real-time app then scans all texts for inappropriate words and displays those messages in daily, weekly and monthly graphs to illustrate trends regarding with whom children are texting and to provide a record should proof be required.

A free, thirty-day ParentingPride trial is available, with an ongoing archive maintenance fee of $12.99 per year.  For complete details on the ParentingPride text messaging app, visit www.parentingpride.com

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