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Staying Safe Online these Holidays

Dec232020Desktop/Laptop Protection, Digital Parenting, Holiday, Parenting talks, Screen Parenting, UncategorizedNo CommentsSophia
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What you need to know about IP Addresses and Secure DNS

Nov282020Android protection, Desktop/Laptop Protection, iOS Protection, Protecting your kids onlineNo CommentsSophia

Secure DNS If you’ve been on the internet long enough (or just watched a TV show about hacking) you’ve probably heard of an IP address. And, if you’ve had a look around the Safe Surfer apps or website you may have seen these related acronyms pop up quite a lot: DNS, DOH, and DOT. While…

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Teens, phones, and porn

Nov172020Digital Parenting, Parenting talks, pornography, Protecting your kids online, Screen ParentingNo CommentsRory

We spoke to Attitude Presenter Brayden Murdoch about what he’s learnt through talking to thousands of young people every year about healthy relationships and making positive choices. Here’s what he had to say when we had a conversation about porn. We live in a world where watching porn on your device between maths and science…

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Prioritizing Eye Contact in the Digital Age

Nov142020Digital Parenting, Parenting talks, Protecting your kids online, Screen ParentingNo CommentsSophia

Here is a sobering statistic: Children between the ages of 10 and 17 will experience nearly one-third fewer face-to-face interactions with other people throughout their lifetimes as a result of an increasingly electronic culture, at home and in school. That statistic came as the result of a study done in the year 2000 from Qualified Impressions,…

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Screentime Across the Ages

Oct072020Digital Parenting, Parenting talks, Screen ParentingNo CommentsSophia

  We hear so many parents struggling to find that right balance with screen time. It can be so tricky, with these modern parenting conundrums which are somewhat new..⁠ In 2019 The World Health Organization (WHO), released screen time recommendations for under 5-year-olds. ⁠ W.H.O Recommendations:⁠ Infants (less than 1 year):⁠ Screen time is not…

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Digital Parenting Beginnings

Oct072020Digital Parenting, Protecting your kids online, Research, Screen ParentingNo CommentsSophia

Introducing screens often begins with simple and innocent thinking like how awesome a tablet will be for helping your young person learn to read, or write or math or research, or perhaps it’s a cell phone for safety and connectivity…and not too soon after your kiddos have got their very own device for ‘learning’ or…

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Modeling Matters

Oct072020Digital Parenting, Parenting talks, Screen ParentingNo CommentsSophia

  The sayings like “Monkey see, monkey do” or “Actions speak louder than words” are pretty accurate when it comes to the way children interpret the world around them. We can be super well-intentioned, proactive at setting clear boundaries for our kid’s screen time, have the Internet usage limits set and everything, and then, model…

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New Technologies: DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT)

Sep302020Android protection, Desktop/Laptop Protection, iOS Protection, Windows ProtectionNo CommentsKirwan
Safe Surfer invests in modern technologies to make surfing the web a safer experience for you. We have been keeping our eye on a new set of technologies that is being freshly released to devices by major technology companies and organisations via device updates: DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and DNS over TLS (DoT).Apple, Microsoft, Google,...
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Pandemic Proofing Your Online Safety

Aug192020Android protection, iOS Protection, Protecting your kids onlineNo CommentsSophia
Safe Surfer believes a safer Internet experience is something all children deserve. Our young people should be protected from nasty content—like pornography and other adult content, graphic violence, malware, and illegal sites. We want to help you in protecting your young people from the effects of harmful material. Having an easy ability to start filtering...
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Sex ed as a series of evolving conversations

Aug182020Parenting talks, Protecting your kids onlineNo CommentsSophia

One in three New Zealand boys are watching pornography on a regular basis. Girls are watching porn, too. It’s just too easy to access. No more walking through the video shop to a dimly-lit R18 nook. Accessing porn is now as easy as opening a web browser and entering a search term 🔍 So—where to…

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