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A Parent’s Guide to Nintendo Switch Games
If there’s one gaming console that seems to be at the top of tons of ...
Decoding Teen Slang: 10 Words Parents Should Know But Never Use
Need to update your rizz factor a little bit? Good. Because this post is all ...
Ask Titania: How Do I Manage My Kid’s Screen Time During the Holidays?
Dear Titania, The holidays are fast approaching, and I’d love some advice on how to ...
Know Before You Buy: Bark’s 2024 Holiday Tech Gift Guide
When the holidays roll around, tons of kids will be asking for the latest gadgets ...
How to Teach Your Kid to Spot a Scam
Despite kids being way more tech-savvy than us nowadays, they’re sadly not immune to tricky ...
5 Unexpected Places Your Kid Might Encounter Porn Online
Porn — you can find it on the internet in a matter of seconds, and as ...
4 Ways to Model Healthy Screen Time
I hate to break it to you, Mom and Dad, but your kids are probably ...
Coming Soon: The First-Ever Bark Kid’s Smart Watch
You may have heard the news: We’re making a Bark Watch! After talking with countless ...
Our Top Picks for Fall Family Movies
Picture it: It’s a cool October evening and a pot of delicous chili is simmering ...
5 Halloween Safety Tips for this Spooky Season
When spooky season is around the corner, there’s lots to be excited about! Ghostly decorations, ...
How Do I Know If My Kids Are Safe Online at Home?
Dear Titania, I have three kids, and for our house we’ve got a Bark Phone ...
Remember McGruff the Crime Dog? He’s Back for More Crime Prevention
Does the phrase “Take a bite out of crime!” trigger long-dormant memories in you? If ...
Celebrating the Wins for World Mental Health Day 2024
It’s not hard to see the real challenges teens face with mental health today. Looking ...
What Is ASMR and Why Are Kids Obsessed With It?
ASMR may be the most popular phenomena you’ve never heard of — we’re serious! It has ...
5 School Year Tips for Parents in 2024: How to Help Your Child Thrive
Whether your children have just started back in the classroom, are nearing the end of ...
What Cyberbullying Looks Like in 2024
Cyberbullying is so common now that we might as well call it “bullying.” More and ...
How to Deal With FOMO in Kids
FOMO — or fear of missing out — starts early in kids, as you might remember. It’s ...
5 Ways to Celebrate National Family Day
Calling all kids, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and pets! National Family Day, designated for the ...
Ask Titania: Are the New Instagram Parental Controls Any Good?
Dear Titania, This week, I read about Instagram’s new parental controls. I wanted to know ...
A Parent’s Guide to Childhood 2.0
At Bark, we consider one of our most important jobs to be educating parents and ...
An iOS 18 Update Guide for Families
iOS 18 launches today, and Apple has once again shown the world that their devices ...
What Parents Need to Know About the 2024 Dirty Dozen List
Every year, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation releases its Dirty Dozen list, which calls ...
World Suicide Prevention Day 2024: Changing the Narrative on Suicide
September 10 is dedicated as World Suicide Prevention Day, an important day dedicated to suicide ...
Should You Read Your Child’s Texts? The Pros and Cons
For many parents today, one of the most divisive questions in digital parenting is whether ...
Driving Safety Tips: How Parents Can Support Their Teen Driver
Parents know there seems to be an endless list of things you want to teach ...
Monitoring Your Child’s Phone? Here’s What You Need to Know
Before the age of smartphones, chat rooms, and social media, parents didn’t have to figure ...
Removing Social Media Access After Granting It: A Parent’s Guide
This is an all-too-common scenario these days: You allow your teenager access to a few ...
What Parents Need to Know About 988
Many parents may not know that suicide is currently the second-leading cause of death for ...
How to Limit Screen Time on an Android Device
Curious about how to limit screen time on your child’s Android? Aside from the old-school ...
What Do I Need to Know About YouTube to Help Protect My Kid?
**This blog post was updated on September 19, 2024.** Dear Titania, As my 6-year-old gets ...
3 Reasons Why Family Center Parental Controls Are Not Enough
Right now, we’re in a pivotal time where tech companies are receiving more and more ...
Conquer Back-to-School Anxiety with Our 10 Tried & True Parenting Hacks
If May-hem is the month where everything end-of-school comes down at all once, then Aug-stress ...
7 Teen Movies That Would Be Very Different If They Had Bark
Parenting in 2024 is definitely challenging, but raising kids before cell phones and the internet ...
5 Questions with Mike Arterburn About Sextortion, Kids, and Online Safety
Sextortion is a serious issue facing kids, but many parents may not be familiar with ...
Parenting in a Digital Age When Your Kid is More Tech Savvy Than You
The amount of technology kids are born into today is truly mind-boggling — for our generation, ...
7 Ways to Build Trust With Your Child
Among all the responsibilities parents have, one of the most important ones is building a ...
Are There Any Safe Ways for Kids to Listen to Music Online?
Dear Titania, My family uses Spotify, and our 11-year-old just told me that kids at ...
Blocking and Reporting on Social Media: What Parents Need to Know
At Bark, we’re pretty vocal about the inadequate parental controls and safety features social media ...
What Would Banning Cellphones in Schools Actually Look Like?
Every day, more and more schools and districts are announcing they’re banning cellphones in K–12 ...
Algospeak: The Words Teens Use to Outsmart Social Media Moderation
Do you ever remember hearing older generations talk about a club in a college town ...
Bark Turns 9: Nine Employees on What Makes Bark Special
This week, Bark turned 9 years old — we’re almost to double-digits! It’s been an ...
How to Monitor Kids’ Text Messages
If you find yourself Googling how to monitor your kid’s text messages, you’re definitely not ...
Why Do I Feel Like the Only Parent Monitoring Their Kid’s Phone?
Dear Titania, My 14-year-old has an Android, and we monitor it with Bark. He’s fine ...
Here Are 10 Content Creators All Parents Should Follow
It’s no secret that parents could use a little help when it comes to keeping ...
10 Takeaways for Parents from the Surgeon General’s Recent Op-Ed
**This blog post was updated on August 8, 2024.** Key takeaways from this blog post: ...
5 Reasons to Have a Daily Schedule for Kids
Most parents know that having a consistent daily schedule is a goal worth having — ...
How to Model Healthy Screen Time Habits for Your Kids
For much of human history, raising kids meant teaching important life skills like reading, cooking, ...
CapCut Alternatives: The 5 Best Video Editing Apps for Kids
Nowadays, it’s a common hobby among Gen Z (and now Gen Alpha) to dabble in ...
Is Your Child Ready for Their First Sleepover?
Do you remember your sleepovers as a kid? Perhaps you remember movie watching, telling ghost ...
The Best Family Tracking App? It’s Actually Bark
**This post was updated on September 5, 2024.** You may already know about Bark’s powerful ...
What Parents Need to Know About Laced Drugs & Social Media
Drug dealers today don’t just peddle marijuana and cocaine — there’s an incredibly surging market ...
The Bark Phone vs iPhone: Here’s The Breakdown
When it comes to giving your kid a phone, many families — especially the hardcore and ...
Top 5 AI Platforms Kids Are Using
Whether you realize it or not, AI — artificial intelligence — influences almost every part ...
How Do I Navigate School Activities that Use Social Media?
Dear Titania, My 13-year-old is active in baseball and soccer at his school, but keeping ...
What Is Telegram? Here’s What Parents Need to Know
Here at Bark, we see tons of popular apps, so we know all the red ...
Should Kids Have Cell Phones at Summer Camp?
**This post was updated on September 5, 2024.** If you’re considering sending your kids to ...
5 Things Parents Should Know During Mental Health Awareness Month
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month, and now is a good time for families to strike ...
Cranky Kids? Learn How Much Screen Time Is Too Much
Parents, do these next few phrases sound familiar? “Just five more minutes — let me ...
Our Top Picks for Reading Apps for Kids
It's pretty amazing when technology and education come together to give kids an interactive boost ...
What to Do If Your Child Is the Victim of a Sextortion Scam
If you're familiar with sextortion, you're probably aware of the emotional and psychological impact it ...
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