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Sprint and Digital Shepherds Present: Parenting In The Digital Age
The document discusses parenting in the digital age and provides tips for monitoring children's mobile device and internet use. It recommends setting clear guidelines, not allowing devices in bedrooms, using routers to control home internet access, and installing parental control apps on mobile devices. It also discusses video game ratings and downloadable content which could potentially include adult options.
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- 4. Mobile: Where TheWild Things Are
- 5. What Are TheyDoing On Mobile? • Sharing: pics and vids • Exploring: pics and vids • Following/Consuming: @kingbach, @kyliejenner, @pewdiepie, @kingbach, @kyliejenner, @mileycyrus, @tobuscus, @genuineguy_, @mrgiveyogirlback, @9gag, @MatthewEspinosa, @davidlopez, @BrandonCalvillo, @Mr_Carterr, @Lance210, @nashgrier, @danbilzerian • “Hooking Up” using geolocation
- 6. What Are TheyDoing On Mobile? Saturday morning network cartoons are dead! Rated R: While YouTube allows for tagging of explicit material, there is currently no facility in place to do the same for app-
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- 11. Parenting Toolbox: PIDA Ifyou aren’t having conversations with your children that make you a bit uncomfortable, you may not be having the right conversations. @tshakaarmstrong #PIDA
- 12. Parenting Toolbox: PIDA •Set clear guidelines and boundaries. • No computers, cell phones, tablets in the bedroom at bedtime. • Laptops use with screen facing the door. • Routers as a kill switch for all traffic in the home.
- 13. Wireless Routers When youhave multiple devices in your home that you’d like to connect to the internet, the best way to facilitate that connection is to use something called a router. A router takes one internet connection and allows more than one device to access it at the same time. Generally, we recommend a wireless router because it is easier for multiple devices in your home to share one connection when done over a wireless connection. For example, and depending on the age of your children, you may have: a desktop computer, a laptop computer, a gaming console such as a XBOX360 or PS3, a portable gaming system such as a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP and an iPod Touch or cell phone which has wifi built-in. All of these devices have the ability to connect to the internet and having to do so over a wired connection would have your living space looking like a bird’s nest at some point. A wireless connection however would allow you to forgo the nest of wires and share your internet connection, from just about anywhere in your average size home or apartment, with several devices. Fortunately for many who are considering their internet options, Internet Service Providers are now including wireless internet devices when you subscribe to their services and they’ll even set up your home wireless network for you*. *Check with your local provider as some may charge a fee for wireless internet setup.
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- 18. Third partycellular parental control services often utilize a web based component with an application which resides locally on the child’s handset. Some of these applications are cellular web browser replacements only, but will generally offer greater control over filtering than what cell service providers offer. The third party parental control applications which offer the most robust options for parents are generally subscription based and carry with them a monthly fee, while browser replacements are generally a one-time fee. Parental control applications we recommend are: MyMobileWatchdog.com and TeenSafe. Great browser replacement offerings for the iPhone/Touch/Pad are: internetsafety.com and NetNanny. Keep them on task with OurPact for iOS
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- 31. Video Game RatingsExplained EARLY CHILDHOOD Titles rated EC (Early Childhood) have content that may be suitable for ages 3 and older. Contains no material that parents would find inappropriate. EVERYONE Titles rated E (Everyone) have content that may be suitable for ages 6 and older. Titles in this category may contain minimal cartoon, fantasy or mild violence and/or infrequent use of mild language. EVERYONE 10+ Titles rated E10+ (Everyone 10 and older) have content that may be suitable for ages 10 and older. Titles in this category may contain more cartoon, fantasy or mild violence, mild language and/or minimal suggestive themes. TEEN Titles rated T (Teen) have content that may be suitable for ages 13 and older. Titles in this category may contain violence, suggestive themes, crude humor, minimal blood, simulated gambling, and/or infrequent use of strong language. MATURE Titles rated M (Mature) have content that may be suitable for persons ages 17 and older. Titles in this category may contain intense violence, blood and gore, sexual content and/or strong language. ADULTS ONLY Titles rated AO (Adults Only) have content that should only be played by persons 18 years and older. Titles in this category may include prolonged scenes of intense violence and/or graphic sexual content and nudity. RATING PENDING Titles listed as RP (Rating Pending) have been submitted to the ESRB and are awaiting final rating. (This symbol appears only in advertising prior to a game's release.)
- 32. What’s In aGame
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- 35. DLC – DownloadableContent Downloadable content is simply: extra content for a video game which may be downloaded for that game from the game producer’s website or enthusiast sites. Most of the time, this content adds new levels to the games or new characters but in some cases it adds some adult options which may not have been part of the game at the time of purchase.
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- #3 Anonymity is more than just a means to get away from the prying eye of parents. With Snowden in the news and so many articles about NSA surveillance, high school children are really curious about it. But that’s not all, they’re also using it to explore their digital and physical worlds in the same way we did when we were children. We left in the AM and had to be home before the street lights came on. We were able to explore our world pretty much on our own terms.
- #4 Your children are trying to do the same thing which is why so many have left Facebook. You’re there Where are have they gone, where will they be going? Let’s get into that.
- #6 @kingbach, @kyliejenner, @mileycyrus, @tobuscus, @genuineguy_, @mrgiveyogirlback, @9gag, @MatthewEspinosa, @davidlopez, @BrandonCalvillo, @Mr_Carterr, Lance210, @nashgrier, @danbilzerian
- #9 Tor is short for The Onion Router (thus the logo) and was initially a worldwide network of servers developed with the U.S. Navy that enabled people to browse the internet anonymously. Now, it's a non-profit organization whose main purpose is the research and development of online privacy tools.
- #36 Midnight Show DLC with the Saboteur-FREE (Parent Watch) (ESRB M=Mature) In this "open-world" third-person shooter, players control an Irish racing mechanic who seeks revenge against Nazis in German-occupied Paris during the 1940s. Players engage in hand-to-hand combat, perform "stealth kills," shoot guns, and plant and set off explosives to destroy Nazi targets. Stealth kills usually involve breaking the necks of Nazi soldiers or stabbing them from behind; gun attacks can include carjacking an enemy in a vehicle—players shoot the driver and throw out the body before getting into the car—and shooting soldiers or civilians while they're on the ground (i.e., postmortem damage). Most of these attacks are accompanied by depictions of blood: the blood sprays out of targets and may pool on the ground or stain surrounding walls. In the free-roaming context, players have the ability to approach any character and use machine guns, rocket launchers, and flamethrowers against him; the cries of pain and screaming from these characters may be unsettling (though players are penalized for killing civilians via the point system). And in districts where the Nazi presence is strong (i.e., the "Will-to-Fight" is low), players may witness civilians in the background getting executed by enemy soldiers. The game contains sexual themes and nudity. Female dancers inside a Parisian cabaret are depicted topless, wearing thong-style underwear that expose their buttocks. Inside a French brothel, women walk around with very little clothing on—essentially, topless with the exception of "pasties" as coverings. German soldiers are sometimes shown groping and fondling prostitutes, dancers, and waitresses; prostitutes can be seen walking the streets of Paris, though sexual acts are only mentioned, never depicted. Characters also reference sex/sexuality in the dialogue (e.g., "A girl should always carry protection," "Laying on your back all day gives one perspective on life," and "We're hitting the brothels later. Want to come?"). The dialogue drives much of the storyline, and those who deliver it use profanity (e.g., "f**k," "sh*t," "c*ck," and "a*shole") in no uncertain terms.