How to Help Kids Do the Right Thing Online
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Take a look at why we love Bark, the monitoring app that lets parents "see" what their kids are doing online.
You only get alerts from Bark when its AI (artificial intelligence) suspects inappropriate content is being sent or received by my child.
Below is a recap from Bark. You can drill down to see a screenshot of any content that Bark flagged inappropriate and see bits of the conversation. With this information, you can help your child learn to be a responsible technology user.
Using Bark is not about "spying" on kids in a sneaky way and please don’t use the information to shame your kids. Bark wants their app to be used as a tool, with transparency and kids should know Bark is installed to watch their accounts. You can talk about the major alerts that come through and why something is tagged as "bullying" or "sexual content" and teach your kids how to use technology for good. Bark is a teaching tool.
A parent’s job is to guide their children toward appropriate behavior, both online and offline, and Bark can make parenting easier.
How are kids supposed to "do better" if parents don't know what they're doing now online?
Without Bark, I wouldn't know to have these conversations and I wouldn't have concrete examples to use from their lives.
What’s great about Bark:
You get to choose what to do with the information in the parental alerts
Your child's online activities that are appropriate stay private
You get real-time information
It's affordable
Bark proactively monitors text messages, YouTube, emails and ~30 different social networks for potential safety concerns. Here’s the complete list of what Bark can monitor.
This can give you peace of mind and an opportunity to bring up the hard conversations when your child is already thinking about them!
