TeenSafe Smartphone Contract and Step-by-Step Guide Helps Parents with #Back-to-School "Digital Flu"

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Aug 15, 2017, 09:23 ET

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- TeenSafe, the first and leading independent smartphone control and monitoring service for parents, encourages families to have the 2017 #onlinesafety discussion as the new school year starts and to sign a smartphone contract.

Back to the classroom means the viral spreading of new apps, new tricks and new challenges for parents.

The new and improved TeenSafe Smartphone Contract covers a wide range of situations, permissions, and restrictions for your tweens/teens smartphone, such as... Asking you before they download any apps or games onto their smartphone...Give human beings priority over their phone! This means it will be silenced or put away in public...The smartphone will not distract them during school or from their studies. ow.ly/zOgG30e8Ygs #Back-to-School #onlinesafety

With the TeenSafe Control App you can easily set schedules to disable apps for your #tweens and #teens around studying, dinner and bedtime. #fightscreenaddiction

"TeenSafe Monitoring and Control software helps parents take the vitals of their kids' smartphone activities," says TeenSafe CEO Ralph Acosta. "Signing a smartphone contract like this one gets the whole family on the same page about digital safety and opens the discussion about protective monitoring."

Back to school is an important time for parents to establish the ground rules for parental monitoring of smartphones and social media. Dr. Tracy Bennett PhD, TeenSafe Global Ambassador, mother and child psychologist agrees.

"With two of my three kids returning to school, revisiting our screen-use contract reminds us to revisit digital responsibility agreements," says Dr. Bennett. "An ongoing dialogue about digital dangers, like "baiting," where cyberbullies post explicit descriptions of online sex that never occurred to exploit victims, is important. Parents need to educate themselves about risks, like self-harm and the Blue Whale Challenge, to maintain their credibility. Ultimately our kids respect that we care enough to stay current."

https://www.teensafe.com/blog/smartphone-contract-2/

Parents can also prepare with this step-by-step guide to help keep strangers from accessing teens/tweens information by changing security and privacy settings on smartphones, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and browsers.

https://www.teensafe.com/blog/ultimate-guide-protecting-kids-online/

More than 1 million parents have turned to TeenSafe to effectively manage how the digital world impacts their children's lives. The iPhone TeenSafe Control App found at the Apple App Store includes,

Scheduling and pausing to remotely lock child's iPhone except for making/receiving emergency calls
Control of all apps, in-app purchasing
Blocking camera functions

Parents wanting additional monitoring capabilities can separately purchase TeenSafe's Monitor including,

Texts, deleted texts
Call logs, contacts
Current smartphone location, history
Browsing history

About TeenSafe

Since 2011, TeenSafe has helped millions of parents safeguard their children from online threats. TeenSafe Monitor enables parents to view texts, deleted texts, location, web history and more. The TeenSafe Control parent app pauses and schedules app, data and phone use and protects teens against distracted driving. TeenSafe, "built by parents for parents," is a proud sponsor of the National PTA and is the "ultimate app for preventing cyberbullying," according to NBC. Follow TeenSafe's blog.

SOURCE TeenSafe