Have you come across your child’s craving for a mobile phone yet? Now, if you’re going to reply me in an affirmation, let me ask you if you have already bought a one for your child or wondering how to handle this demand?

This demand of our kids often perplexes us as it isn’t like their demand for a new Tee, golf gloves, or mountain bike. It is something that offers both technical growth which is vital for the today’s kids and the possible harm and destruction which is silently gripping most of the technology using kids of the day.

And as you plan buying a cell phone for your child, hundreds of questions gather up in your mind like: will it be safe? Will it be appropriate for my child’s age and growth? Is my child responsible enough to use it the safe way and keep the device safe from damage? Will my child not be wasting all her time on the cell phone instead of studying or doing something more important? And so on.

If you go a step deeper to understand the actual issue, you’ll realize that handing over a cell phone to your child actually comes packed with 3 main dangers and if you and your kid handle all three of them smartly, there just won’t be any problem getting her a brand new cell phone!

First, Cyber Bullying Spreading its Wings More Powerfully

It has been a long time when Cyber Bullying got free from the bounds of school corridors and lonely backyards and made its den on the Internet and started playing its nasty role through the electronic devices. But with the increased popularity of social networking sites and smart phones becoming handier with today’s kids, bullies know the exact place to attack their victims. So, every online activity of your child on these social sites that include the profile, the information, the pictures, the posts, the events, and host of all the other things work as the options for the bully to take advantage of. Whatever, your child does can be a reason for the bully to create social gossip, pass ridiculing comments, or simply make fun of.

And with the latest trend of smart phone applications and tons of software programs easily available online that make it easy for children to share picture, befriend strangers, and indulge in several other activities, bullies get a better chance of sabotaging their victims.

Second, Infamous Trend of Sexting among Teenagers & Pre-Teens

Kids, especially the teenagers and the pre-teens are maniacally indulging in this totally devastating trend called sexting which involves sharing sexually explicit picture of self with others. Sadly, most of them don’t know that it is rated as a legally offensive act and can put them in trouble if they are caught sending or receiving a sext. And the damage that this infamous trend has is far more than a legal battle awaiting them. A child who sends his or her nude or semi-nude picture to their friends has a potential danger of being ridiculed publically among their friends and others if their pictures get leaked to others, which is quite common a case taking place every now and then.

And this is again a place where bullies get to take the advantage of a kid’s folly.

Third, Increasing Threat of Online Predators

Kids are naive enough to befriend strangers online by simply believing in what these innocent and nice looking strangers say to them. But they hardly ever get to know that the good behaving stranger online is not another kid of their age but is a dangerous adult who has no other purpose than to victimize her. And in their naivety they even decide to meet these unknown people in real and get into unimaginable troubles.

These predators know exactly where to prey for their victims and they choose exactly those social sites and applications which the kids use to befriend new people and share their pictures and other information.

What Exactly is Working as Catalyst in the Increasing Online Danger and Abuse?

Wondering why the threat is increasing day by day and despite the ever improving realms of technology we aren’t able to curb these dangers. The real reason behind it is the technology itself. With the increase in number of social sites and cheap and easy to use applications that make handling Internet through cell phone far easier than before, the danger is ever increasing.

Social sites like Facebook that were earlier known to be safe are now found to be most ill used by bullies and predators. Facebook itself has some technical flaw or perhaps the kids of the days are far smarter than its technology! It allows a person to use the site only if he or she is above 13, but recent surveys have found that millions of kids below the age of 13 are using the site.

Then there are host of other sites and applications like Chatgig, Instagram, Kik, Imeetzu, Chatoulette, Let’s Date, Meet Me, Skout, Omegle, SnapChat, Oovoo, etc. that offers users to chat and share their pictures with total strangers. Most of these sites do promise that no information will ever get leaked and the pictures will not be available for download or other possibility to save. Kids feel they are really safe and abuse them by sharing their sext through these sites or by planning to meet the strangers in the real life which lead to such damages which can neither be undone nor be averted and the scars that they leave are then forever.

How can You Keep your Child Safe and Make Sure they Use Mobile the Safe Way?

This is a thing of great importance and if you can really promise to get it done the right way, will it be justifiable to hand over a new smart phone to your child.

Communicate with Your Child

Talk to your child well. Be friends and have proper communication which means you’re going to speak as well as listen to what your child has to say and help her like a guide and friend. This will let you explain your child the possible consequences of ill use of the various social sites and applications that make using the sites on the phone easier in a much better way.

Set Proper Rules

Set rules for mobile usage. When you have bought the mobile, you do have the right to monitor it and check out what things your child is busy doing through the phone. Tell your child what things you don’t expect her to do with the phone and if you find those things happening what will the consequences. Don’t feel bad to take the mobile back if you find the rules broken; after all it is for your child’s safety.

Monitor your Child’s Device through Child Mobile Monitoring Software

Proper parental monitoring of your child’s cell phone is a must but if it is not possible for you to handle it yourself all the time and you are suspicious that your child is hiding some really crucial thing from you, child mobile monitoring application is the best way to handle it. This will not just let you know the cell phone activities of your child including the internet activities, inbound and outgoing calls, and texts, etc but will also let you put an end to any of the unwanted activities that your child is getting indulged in. So, if you find your child sharing her pictures with some stranger online through one of those popular applications or online sites, you can immediately block the app and the site. It is equally possible for you to locate your child if she really goes on a blind date with some unknown fellow from the online social site, and so on.

Become a Part of your Child’s Social Presence

Don’t feel shy to create your own account on those social sites like Facebook, Twitter etc where your child is already present and ask her to befriend you. This will let you know what is going on in your child’s social world and will even get to know her online friends better.

So, once you make your child ready to face the 3 potential dangers online, prepare yourself to be a part of your child’s Internet presence and trace all her activities using an advanced mobile monitoring technology, you can be sure of your child’s safety and think of buying her a cell phone soon!

Simply google-up the word “cyber bullying” and you’ll come across some of the most appalling bullying cases which have led to hundreds of suicides worldwide. Some of the names like Megan Meier, Ryan Halligan have indeed got engraved in our minds forever. The bullying incidences that take place in school premises do have drastic effects on the victims but its electronic counterpart is far more than just damaging. The possibility of victimizing from a safe distance staying completely anonymous makes Internet a favourite channel for the bullies.

As a parent it becomes your foremost duty to know if your child is a part of this evil either as a victim or as a doer before it gets really late.

Below are simple tips to save your child from Cyber Bullying.

Discuss Cyber Bullying with your Child

Kids are immature and in their immaturity they can get into wrong practices like bullying. It can also be opposite and your child may be victimized by some other immature kids, but both have fatal consequences. Discussing the fatality of cyber bullying is one good way to help your child behave in a mature way and stay away from getting involved into this grave activity.

Keep track of your child’s Digital Life

As bullies exploit the digital devices uncompromisingly, it is important that you stay aware of your child’s digital activities especially of the people he interacts with and what kind of conversation goes on between them. But most children tend to hide things from their parents and with the portable quality of the latest digital devices; it is advisable to install tracking programs into your child’s digital device and trace all the activities taking place through it. Monitoring child mobile or other digital devices like tablet, laptop, etc opens up the entire digital life of your child and you have complete command over every single thing that your child would otherwise keep secret from you.

Know about your Child’s Online Presence

Your child must be present on various social networking sites and must have made his own large group of friends and acquaintances there? Have you any idea? It is important for you to know about that.

One smart and easy way to know about your child’s online presence is to create an account on all these sites and befriend your child there; this will not just give you an insight of what your child does on these sites but will also give you a better idea of his friends and social circle on the sites. If your child doesn’t befriend you on these sites better create an account with a different name and silently enter your child’s social circle.

Cell phone Monitoring software can also be helpful in this as they easily trace your child’s online presence and get you all the information that you want to know.

Organize Special Activity Meets for Parents, Kids & Schools

Meet other parents, especially those of your kids’ friends and organize a special activity meet to discuss the issue and its dangerous consequences as well as possible remedies to it. This will create a better awareness among the kids and their parents. It also has a fair chance of changing the minds of some of the bullies present in the meet! Involving school authorities is next useful step that can surely help keeping kids safe from cyber bullying.

“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.   -  Michael  J. Fox”

And your kids are the pivotal part of your ‘everything’ aka ‘family’. The International Day of Families is around, so what are your plans for the day? Participating in a family activity arranged at your little one’s school? Planning to spend extra time with your kid? Or going out for a family picnic? Great plans no doubt but how about doing something to ensure better safety of your kids and family?

With Internet flooding with hundreds of unsafe stuffs and your child’s cell phone giving an easy access to that unsafe world of web, it becomes important for every parent to do something extra to keep their child safe. As a matter of fact, a child accessing unsafe and unfiltered Internet through his or her cell phone is as unsafe as is one left home alone, now not all kids are as smart as Kevin (Macaulay Culkin portraying the role) in box office hit Home Alone! Moreover, the Internet space is pretty more difficult to tackle for an eight year old and for the teenagers as well if they don’t play it safe!

Here’s your quick list of things you can resolve on International Day of Families 2013 to do to keep your child cyber safe.

Talk to your child about how to use Internet safely

Giving your child useful safety nuggets for Internet usage works like a wonder. Whether your child is a naughty pre-teen or an over-enthusiastic teenager, there are camouflaged perils always around to grab your child. Some of the important things you should tell your child about cyber safety include:

• Tell your child to maintain non interaction with strangers and minimalistic interaction with acquaintances online.
• Not to share any personal information online.
• Not to save the password on the cell phone there are chances of its misuse. The passwords are not to be shared with anybody outside the family.
• Any phone call or texts from unknown sources are to be shown to parents. No hiding game with parents, it is unsafe.
• No meeting plans with friends from the gaming or social sites.

 All the times are not Internet and Cell phone use times

Now this has to be followed by you and all the other adult members of the family as well. When together, it is the time for family interaction and engagements in various fun filled activities that involve the entire family so, no wasting away of this time in Internet or cell phone usage. This will stop your child from becoming a cell phone & Internet addict.

Also make sure there is no mixing up or homework with text chatting or online games, as such kind of mixing will not only hamper your child’s studies but will also prove unsafe as you’ll hardly be checking your child’s activities assuming them to be busy in studies and they’ll then be free to do just anything on their cell phones or on the Internet. Same rule applies to late night cell phone usage.

Monitor your child’s Cell phone and Internet Activities

Don’t leave your child alone with cell phone all the time. Try keeping an eye on what your child is doing with the cell phone or what kind of Internet activities are keeping your child busy. It’s a bit tough to check your child’s cell phone activities as it can be taken anywhere and you can’t always follow your child everywhere. However, using a cell phone monitoring software can help you in this. Simply empower your child’s cell phone with parental control software and keep a close watch on all the activities your child’s getting involved in. This will also help you block all the dangerous appearing cell phone and Internet activities of your child.

Spend More Time with your Child

When you give more time to your kid and help them believe you’re always there to listen to them or speak to them, the chances of your child’s getting in to cell phone addiction reduces. And your child will then prefer sharing secrets with you instead of choosing some stranger online or with some newly developed friend.

So, decide to make a safer life for your child this International Day of Families by simply following these simple to follow tips!

Do you remember what it was like to be a teenager? Life was new and exciting and you were ready to take on the world. Yes, your parents warned you about this or that danger, but you thought they were exaggerating, that you could handle whatever it is that came across. In fact, you were sure that you were smarter than they were and after all, wasn’t life to be meant to be daring and challenging and adventurous?

Today’s children are the same, and they are taking on the new version of an old fad: Dares. Some of these are normal for their age, but there are a few that could result in injury or death. But if you install a mobile monitoring application on the mobile phone of your child, you’ll be able to know about them and stop them. I specially recommend parents to look for signs of the participation of your child in any of the following activities:

1.      The Cinnamon Challenge:

This dare consists of ingesting a spoonful of cinnamon powder. The catch is, that you can’t drink water. So far, I haven’t seen or heard of anyone actually passing the “challenge.” However, it can cause chocking and the cinnamon might also cause some sort of reaction or allergy when ingested in that quantity.

2.      Car Surfing:

Teenagers hop on the top of a car and try to keep their balance while someone else is driving. There is no safety equipment and any fall can be fatal. To make matters worse, “experts” often ask the driver to increase the speed or drive erratically.

3.      Subway Chicken:

A pair of teenagers stand in front of a train or the tracks of a subway. The point of the challenge is to be the last one to get out of the way when the train comes, proving that you possess more “courage” than the rest. Not only dangerous, but stupid as well.

4.      The Gallon Challenge:

This dare involves drinking a specified quantity of a liquid, usually water or milk, in a specific period of time. The “goal” is to drink a whole gallon of the liquid. This dare has been known to kill people.

Obviously, not all children do these things, but since you really don’t know, you can’t take any chances. The mobile monitoring application is very useful to find about the bad things our children do. However, you might just learn that your child is doing perfectly ok and he’s not in any danger at all. That is usually a good reason to justify the program’s price.

Companies and businesses are all about the bottom line. There are other aspects as well, like working on a field that you like or doing something that makes you feel fulfilled, but if you’re going to create and run a business, it’s all about making it profitable. That’s why everything you invest in, has to come with a benefit. And the benefit has to be worth the price you are paying, or otherwise there is no point.

When it comes to investing in a smartphone monitoring application, it’s only natural for business and company owners to wonder “Is it worth the money?” And the answer is that it actually is. It offers you several benefits that justify the costs. Here are just a few of them:

a) It detects areas of opportunity.

We are the ones who know what’s best for our businesses, of course. But that doesn’t mean we ignore some aspects of it or that employees can’t have ideas that improve them. Even in the most open envoironments, employees are not always motivated to share good ideas with you, often because they think it will not affect them in a positive way. And the reverse is even worse. Employees who think that some areas of the company or ideas of yours are bad, will not mention them to you, as they imagine they will affect their image to you negatively. However, with a smartphone monitoring app, you can know what your employees think of you and your company, and then decide what to implement and what not, depending on your judgement.

b) It gets rid of bad elements.

I wish I didn’t have to write this point, but the fact of the matter is that there are bad elements in pretty much every company. While some employees are blatant about their bad habits, most of them will hide their actions from you and appear to be the most hard-working of them all when you’re around. Obviously, you’re not stupid and eventually you’ll catch them, but by that time, you would have wasted a lot of time and money on their training and salaries. Why tolerate them when you can have a tool that can expose them right away?

c) It allows you to reward good employees.

This is the exact opposite of the previous point. Good employees have to be rewarded in order for them to keep being good and also to set an example to others. But hard-working doesn’t always translate as noticeable, so you might tend to overlook them, especially if they have a quiet and shy personality. But with the app, you can find them and make them feel thankful and appreciated.

Raising teenagers in the house is a daunting task for even the most prepared parents. Teenagers are attracted to fun, excitement, and activities that pump up their adrenaline. They are hardly equipped with the adequate experience to make rational and intelligent decisions. They often put themselves, their friends, and their parents into trouble. Your busy schedule and their privacy rights do not allow you to accompany them wherever they go, even though you often want to. Your best bet is to give them a cell phone with Android monitoring software installed on it. Here is how the software will be a helping hand for you:

1. Calls and Messages:

Teenagers frequently call and text each other even for minute details and apparently meaningless stuff. If you have the power to know the center of their texts and calls, you’ll know their world. Teenagers are mostly expressive and hardly keep things secret in their close circle. You’ll also have the additional power to turn on audio streaming and surround recording.

2. Contact List:

With the software, you have the power to inspect their address book. A quick look will reveal some weird and misleading names. You will get some hints about their drugs (hopefully none!), dares, and party friends (if they exist). If you turn on the notification feature, you will receive alerts for when they start a conversation with a number of your choosing, and you can even hear this conversation!

3. Location Tracking:

Location tracking is a quick way to confirm that your child is attending school, doing his/her homework, roaming in safe neighborhoods, and is not being targeted by bullies and drug dealers. Location tracking is both real time and historical. Hence you have the right type of information to keep your child safe.

4. Surfing Habits:

Excessive social media, chatting with strangers, internet scams, and malware are the downside of cyber life that our teenagers are exposed to. It is our duty as parents to educate and protect them from innocent-looking yet dangerous ‘clicks’. The software helps us by providing us with the surfing habits of our children. Diagnosis is the first step towards cure.

5. Picture Gallery:

Teenagers love to capture their precious moments with pictures. They love to enjoy them later when the friend circle dismantles. With the Android monitoring software, you get access to their pictures on their handset. You’ll see exactly what happens on those pictures, and judge by yourself if your child is doing something dangerous that you should stop.

Owning a business is not a bed of roses. Strategies, market positioning, competitor analysis, supply chain management, etc., there are so many issues, one after another that keep you busy all day long. Sometimes you are so bogged down that you stop paying attention to details and that’s where things actually starts hurting your company. One such area is employees’ behavior.

An estimated 30% of the employees today are stealing from the jobs or violating office discipline. If you install a smartphone monitoring application on their phones, your probability of handling the issue increases manifold. The application allows you to manage physical location, phone calls, messages, and web browsing. In short, it tells you what your employees are NOT telling you. For example:

1. They are stealing your time:

Attendance via proxies is far too common than most of us can imagine. Equally bad is the misuse of company’s valuable time in personal activities. Your salesman may not be at the customer’s premises for the much-trumpeted sales meeting. Your warehouse manager may not be offloading the truck. They won’t tell you but your spy application will.

2. They are looking for a new job:

With the economic recession, job uncertainty has increased. Many employees feel their jobs are insecure. They keep searching for a better-paying job right from their cubicles. They submit resumes to recruitment agencies and head hunters and they decide to keep you in the dark. Your only hope is catching them with a smartphone monitoring application.

3. They are teaming up with your competitor:

How is that possible? You ask yourself. If you were using this type of software, you won’t ask yourself, You would KNOW. In exchange for something as petty as a better job prospect, employees start sharing confidential information with competitors. They disclose sales bids, market strategies, product launch date, and even project status with your competitors.

4. They are misguiding your customers:

It is common for salesmen to recommend products to customers that pay higher commission to employees rather than the products that suit the customer’s needs. While the strategy does not have immediate consequences for your business, it has far reaching effects on your business and its credibility.

5. They are misusing the phones you pay for:

Many employees use cell phones for excessive personal use. It increases your communication expenses and costs your business $$$ due to lost hours. But if you use a smartphone monitoring application, you can identify such employees and handle them professionally.

Having an iPad monitoring program might seem a bit excessive at first. However, parents from several countries have discovered that it gives them much more control over the activities of their children and in some cases, the program has discovered situations or problems that could have resulted in injuries or even death.

How does it do it? Well, here are 3 ways such a program helps you keep your child safe.

a) It allows you to find your child at any time.

As you know, just because your child carries a phone (in addition to the iPad), it doesn’t mean that he will answer your calls. Very often he will not. In fact, if he is doing something dangerous, chances are he will not answer your calls on purpose. Children and teenagers always try to solve problems they have gotten into on their own, with the idea that they will get out of trouble without having to inform their parents. Depending on the problem, this could be very dangerous. But with the progam, you will be able to know right away where your child is and know better if you should worry and do something about it.

b) It lets you know the surfing habits of your child.

A child with an iPad will use it to visit sites that he knows that his parents don’t approve of. The mobility of the tablet allows him to see those sites out of the house, where you can’t monitor him. One of the first things he’ll learn is how to delete the history of his browsing, so if you check it, you will not know what types of sites he’s been visiting. The program gives you this list in real time, even if it’s deleted from the iPad. You will know if your child has been visiting inappropriate sites or if he’s being searching certain type of information.

c) It lets you see the type of pictures he’s taking and sharing with his friends.

You can learn a lot about what your child does and cares for through his pictures. The iPad’s camera is simple to use and very practical, so children use it a lot. You will know if he’s taking inappropriate pictures (especially if you are the parent of a girl and you don’t want certain types of pictures being shared). Also, a lot of times those pictures can tell you if your child smokes, drinks, or does drugs.

At some point, your child is going to have an iPad. It’s like you not having a bike when you were a kid. So why not make it beneficial to us as well and install an iPad monitoring program such as SpyBubble on it? You’ll definitely feel safer with it.

Let me start by saying that if you have a problem child or you think you have a problem child, that doesn’t automatically mean that you’re a bad parent. In fact, there are several factors that can turn a perfectly normal child into a problem child and they don’t necessarily involve you.

Unfortunately, some of them won’t show up when you’re around. That’s why parents who suspect that they might have problem children use mobile phone monitoring. With it, they can know things that they would otherwise ignore. Here are three examples of habits that that all problem children have.

1.- Lying.

One thing that all problem children do is lie. Sometimes it’s part of the problem, but a lot of times it’s a consequence of the problem. For example, if a problem child hits other children, he will lie about it to escape punishment. Other times, he will be the one that’s bullied by others and will lie about it because he’s ashamed or because he’s intimidated by others. In any case, if he’s lying, you will want to know why and what about so you can solve the problem.

2.- Completely different personality at school from the one he has at home.

You might be thinking “well, of course children act differently when their parents are not around.” Yes, but I’m not talking about that kind of change. I’m talking about a change of 180 degrees in his behavior. For example, a child that’s cheerful and happy all the time at home, but sulky and sullen and anti-social at school. One that’s very tolerant and seldom cries at home but that’s extremely sensitive at school. One that is very pacific at home, but picks up fights at school. Some of these changes will be obvious to the teacher, but others won’t, so it’s up to you to find out about them.

3.- Asking for another adult or a peer for help with serious problems.

Note that this doesn’t automatically mean that your child doesn’t trust you. As explained before, he might have been warned by a bully not to contact you, so he goes to another adult or a friend. And that’s just one of many explanations, and whatever it is, most parents never suspected it.

Yes, you should have an open relationship with your child, but that is not always the case, despite our best efforts.

Conclusions

It’s hard to say what makes a problem child. There are so many things that can affect a child. Of course, a healthy environment and a good relationship with parents is always the best protection. Nevertheless, why not use cell phone monitoring and make life so much easier? Especially if it makes your child’s life so much better.

Monitoring a cell phone is a very easy process… if you know how the process goes, of course.

The problem with monitoring mobile phones is that many people have a lot of ideas about it that are wrong. Usually, when they hear “mobile monitoring” they think of “cell phone spying.” And while it’s true that they are the same thing, the word “spy” evokes in them some connotations that aren’t always positive or truthful.

The most common one is that people who use these programs are “bad” or that they are “unethical,” which is not true and it’s something which I will talk at the end of the article. But first, let me tell you how to monitor a cell phone or a mobile phone.

a) You need a program to monitor and supervise a mobile phone. It’s not a feature that comes integrated in any cell phone. In addition, the phone that you’re going to supervise needs to have Internet connection. That’s because it’s trough the Internet that the software send you the information of the phone.

b) Find a site that sells the software. There are quite a few sites that sell it. My favorite brand is SpyBubble and that’s the one I recommend.

c) Open an account at the site. The information that the program gathers from the phone is sent to the website. Obviously, you don’t want this information to be seen by anyone else. That’s why you need to create an account. You’ll need a valid e-mail address and a strong password, which you’ll create yourself. If you’ve ever opened a Facebook account or a free e-mail account (such as gmail), then you’ll recognize the process. In this way, the information will be protected from uninvited eyes.

d) Pay for the program. These applications are not free, but on the other hand they are not expensive either. In any case, they are MUCH cheaper than a private detective. You can pay with any credit card and the price is very reasonable, especially if it gets you information that you’ve been wanting for ages or that prevents a tragedy (for example, finding out if your son is starting to drink).

e) Install the program on the phone that you want to spy on. Many people think that this is the most difficult aspect of them all. It’s not. The installation process is very easy and it doesn’t take you more than 3 or 4 minutes. When you open an account, you’ll receive full clear instructions with pictures on how to install the program. There’s no need of tools or cables and you don’t need knowledge about computers or electronics either. You don’t even have to open the cell phone or connect it physically to the computer. It’s just a matter of pressing some buttons and adjusting some settings and downloading the program through the ‘s browser.

And that’s all. You can now give the phone to the person you want to monitor and you’ll know that person’s plans, activities, and types of relationships. You’ll even know where the person is at all times, just like in the movies.

Before I finish, I want to answer the question “why do people spy on cell phones?” There are many reasons and none of them are evil-intentioned. Some people want to know if their partner is cheating on them. Parents also want to keep an eye on their children. And finally, employers use the software to monitor their employees’ productivity. As you can see, it’s not anything that you or I wouldn’t do.

SpyBubble is by far the most reliable, popular and easy to use software to monitor mobile phones. This is one of these occasions where you don’t want to leave anything to chance. When it comes to discover the truth about others, it’s always better to play it safe and stick to a known brand. Click Here to know more about SpyBubble.