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Reviews and information on apps, games, websites, movies, and TV shows you children may be interested in.

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Common Sense Media: Age-Based Media Reviews for Families

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Common Sense Media is the leading source of entertainment and technology recommendations for families. Parents trust our expert reviews and objective advice.

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Fact checking and myth busting

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The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.

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Learn about the games, apps, and websites your children love

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Struggling to keep up with the apps, games, and websites your kids are using? Common Sense's Parents' Ultimate Guides can help keep you up to date and answer your questions about all the latest platforms and trends. Whether you're trying to figure out if a new app is safe for your teen or if a popular game includes blood and gore, we've got you covered.

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Struggling to keep up with the apps, games, and websites your kids are using? Common Sense's Parents' Ultimate Guides can help keep you up to date and answer your questions about all the latest platforms and trends.

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Bringing together the NSPCC's expertise in protecting children and O2's tech know-how, we've got everything you need to help you keep your kids safe online. Whether you're an online expert or you're unsure of where to start, we're here to help.

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Your guide to social networks, apps and games

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Net Aware brings together the NSPCC's expertise in protecting children and O2's tech know-how, we've got everything you need to help you keep your kids safe online. Whether you're an online expert or you're unsure of where to start, we're here to help.

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A realistic and optimistic perspective on how to thoughtfully guide kids in the digital age

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Praise for Screenwise

Acknowledging the impossibility of fully sheltering children from the world of digital media, Heitner provides guidance for parents navigating this ever-changing landscape. She suggests that parents and educators shouldn't monitor a child's every move but should act as guides and mentors, helping children make good decisions and fostering their creativity. This book provides useful advice for the parents of children of all ages and will serve well as a guide to help the different generations communicate, in person or online.
Publisher's Weekly

For all parents who feel like they can't keep up with today's technology, Devorah Heitner has come to the rescue. Screenwise doesn't judge or preach. It is full of empathy and insight, providing gems of guidance based on years of deep research and real talk with real kids. A pleasure to read. Lisa Guernsey, Author of Tap, Click, Read and Screen Time, Director of Learning Technologies Project at New America

Don't let your kids' tech life stress you out. Grab Screenwise and get the good news and strategies you need to guide your kids (or let them safely guide you) into a smart and savvy digital life. Deborah Gilboa, MD, parenting and youth development expert at Ask Dr. G

A must-read for twenty-first century parents! Parenting the digital generation requires complex skills that I frankly didn't have-until now. Empowered by Dr. Heitner's timely book, I feel infinitely more prepared to guide my son and daughter through the advantages and perils of modern-day connectedness. Issues like trust, relationships, security, and balance are handled deftly by an expert who clearly knows the territory and shares her knowledge in a relatable way. Every modern-day parent should read this book. Highly recommended. Mary O'Donohue, author of When You Say "Thank You, Mean It And 11 Other Lessons for Instilling Lifelong Values In Your Children

Find your way from 'screenworried' to 'screenwise.' It's time to get over your techno-guilt and become a more competent and confident media mentor-an enthusiastic tour guide and mindful role model-for your child in the digital age. In these pages you'll find affirmation, encouragement, a gentle nudge or two about your own media use, and practical strategies to help you become a 'tech positive parent.'" Chip Donohue, PhD, Director, Technology in Early Childhood (TEC) Center at Erikson Institute

"Heitner empowers parents without guilt and provides helpful tips for the tech savvy and not-so-tech-savvy. It's a book that every parent should read." Leticia Barr Tech Savvy Mama

"Heitner makes an excellent case for the need to actually experience our kids' digital world with them and to learn ourselves how they want to use these tools, rather than making assumptions based on our personal experiences and fear-mongering about the digital world. Screenwise is a fabulous distillation of the dilemmas facing current parents of teens and tweens when it comes to the ever-present digital and social media."
Em ily Sexton Grounded Parents

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Screenwise: Helping Kids Thrive (and Survive) in Their Digital World - Raising Digital Natives

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Praise for Screenwise Acknowledging the impossibility of fully sheltering children from the world of digital media, Heitner provides guidance for parents navigating this ever-changing landscape. She suggests that parents and educators shouldn't monitor a child's every move but should act as guides and mentors, helping children make good decisions and fostering their creativity.

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The Problem with Parents, Kids, and Social Media

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The Problem with Parents, Kids, and Social Media

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Short, helpful video with steps parents can take to ensure their approach to social media is positive

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The Problem with Parents, Kids, and Social Media

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5 Myths and Truths About Kids' Internet Safety

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5 Myths and Truths About Kids' Internet Safety

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5 Myths and Truths About Kids' Internet Safety

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Help keep your kids' online experiences positive and productive by learning the truth (and ignoring the rumors) about what really makes them safe. Advice from Common Sense Media editors.

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Limiter, Enabler, or Mentor?

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My recent piece for The Atlantic, Parents: Reject Technology Shame, tackles the question of how to raise kids in a digital world. Data from more than 10,000 North American parents shows that they are deeply divided on this question, and that there are three distinct approaches to navigating technology and managing screen time.

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Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World

Over the past decade, the new language created by social media and technology have ostensibly widened the communication divide between generations. Though students have long managed to find distractions, today's technology innovations present new challenges for students and adults, and many adults struggle to keep up with what their kids are doing online. With a proactive, practical approach based on over fifteen years of working with students in private practice and in schools, Ana provides simple, implementable solutions focused around the three main tenets of socialization, self-regulation and safety. In the face of our "always on" culture, Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World creates a new conversation around social media wellness - one that encourages tweens and teens to think about their own personal values and daily choices, while emphasizing the importance of parental attitude and a collaborative approach in helping all of us build healthier online habits and create more balanced lives.

"This is the book I've been waiting for. Ana Homayoun gives concrete strategies for parents to talk with their teens without using judgment and fear as tools. This is a guidebook you can pick up at anytime, and which your teen can read, too. I'll be recommending it to everyone I know."

Rachel Simmons
author of New York Times bestseller The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence

Download free resources to accompany Social Media Wellness: Our guide to the best apps for productivity, and a sample media use agreement for parents.

"I am currently reading Social Media Wellness and loving it - I literally want to highlight every other page."

- Diana Van Der Merwe, School Counselor, International School Manila

The Myth of the Perfect Girl: Helping Our Daughters Find Authentic Success in School and Life

In today's achievement culture, many girls seem to be doing remarkably well - excelling in honors and sports and attending top colleges in ever greater numbers - but beneath the surface, girls are stressed and exhausted from striving to be "perfect." Their efforts to juggle schoolwork and extracurriculars, family and social obligations, as well as relationships online and IRL (in the real world), can make many girls lose sight of their own unique abilities. With honesty, empathy, and a fresh perspective, The Myth of the Perfect Girl presents advice to empower both parents and girls themselves to discover what true success and happiness means to them. This book offers practical, thoughtful solutions to promote the healthy social, emotional, physical and spiritual wellness of today's young girls and women.

"The Myth of the Perfect Girl challenges both girls and the adults who care about them to deeply reflect on the most important issues girls will face as they reach their full potential."
ROSALIND WISEMAN
author of Queen Bees and Wannabes

Download a free activity guide to accompany The Myth of the Perfect Girl.

That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Helping Disorganized and Distracted Boys Succeed in School and Life

In That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week , Ana explains how she's encouraged even the most disorganized, scattered, and unfocused boys to become successful young people who consistently meet and overcome their personal and academic challenges. It starts with a simple fact: Most boys need to be taught how to get organized, how to study, and - most importantly - how to visualize, embrace and meet their own goals. With an approachable, no-nonsense style, Ana's book can be used by parents to identify their son's dis-organizational type, help him set goals that he is intrinsically motivated to meet, and aid him in managing social pressure and anxiety. Much more than a how-to guide, this insightful and user-friendly book provides a roadmap for the success too many boys have trouble finding in school and in life.

"That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week provides an innovative and practical approach to helping boys find success. Ana Homayoun presents straightforward, easily implementable solutions that will help transform the lives of boys and parents."
MICHAEL GURIAN
author of The Wonder of Boys and The Minds of Boys

Download free resources to accompany That Crumpled Paper Was Due Last Week: Our study schedule guide, and Taming the Distractions PDF.

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Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World Over the past decade, the new language created by social media and technology have ostensibly widened the communication divide between generations. Though students have long managed to find distractions, today's technology innovations present new challenges for students and adults, and many adults struggle to keep up with what their kids are doing online.