Today I’m sharing a guide of how to set up parental controls on an iPhone or iPad, using the new Screen Time controls in iOS 12. They’re a great way of keeping kids safe and monitoring their activity on a mobile phone. If you’ve ever looked into any sort of…
View PostFriendships – and particularly teen girl friendships – are complicated and hard and oh so easy to get wrong. And some of those issues are things we’re still dealing with as grown adults. Flea is now in her third year of senior school. Generally, she’s a girl who gets along…
View PostKeeping teens safe online is the sort of thing that keeps me awake at night. It’s easy enough to see if Flea is taking risks when she’s crossing the road, or making her hundredth packet of noodles this week. But when she’s sitting with her nose in her laptop, or…
View Post. When should teenagers drink alcohol for the first time? At thirteen, my daughter is beginning to encounter alcohol in her peer group. There are parties and sleepovers and girls with older boyfriends, and at some point, I’m sure, Flea will be tempted to try alcohol. To my mind, this…
View PostWhat to get a 13 year old girl for her birthday is – honestly – a difficult question. At the grand old age of 13, nobody wants to be treated like a child. This means you can’t buy anything that might be considered to be a toy. Definitely you can’t…
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