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Parenting

Parental Controls: TikTok

How to set up Family Pairing on your teenager’s TikTok account and create a “view-only” experience for your kids and tweens.

Parenting

When AI Tries to Be Christian

What happens when an AI tries to be a Christian? And how should real Christians respond to all the AI hype?

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Technology

Tech Trends: What Parents Need to Know About TikTok Alternatives

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the past few months, you already know that Congress voted in favor of a TikTok ban. Essentially, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, has 270 days to sell the app or have it prohibited on American app stores.

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Parenting

Kids Just Wanna … Turn Off?

About 40% of teens worry that they should probably cut back on their social media time.

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Technology

Tech Trends Has Moved!

Tech Trends isn’t gone! It’s just moved to Focus on the Family’s Parenting page!

Technology

AI Stumbles, Black Nazis and You

With more and more folks embracing AI as a teaching tool, how do we handle glitches that allow the machines to rewrite history?

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