Tech alerts
What your kids already know, in plain English
Each alert runs the same three parts: what it is, why children run into it, and what to do today. The evidence is shown with its limits, and so is what we couldn't establish.
Why this exists
An alert you can't check is worse than none
Most parent-facing warnings about new apps are written to be forwarded, which means they're written to be alarming. That's the opposite of useful: a parent who has been shouted at once about a trend that turned out to be nothing stops reading the next one, and the next one might be real.
So every alert here names its sources, states what the evidence doesn't support, and says plainly when nobody actually knows. If a figure can't be sourced, it isn't published — even when that makes the alert less exciting.
Settings vs street smarts
Controls set the boundary. Judgement keeps them safe when you're not looking.
Knowing about a trend buys you a conversation. It doesn't build the judgement your child needs at 10pm when the trend arrives in their own DMs. NetWise Kids puts them in a realistic group chat, DM or trade request and lets them practise saying no — before the real one arrives.