The newest, coolest blog on the Internet
November 26th, 2007 by COD
Please, go check it out and subscribe to the feed. Write about it on your blog. Tell your friends. Tell your mother. Tell everybody.
More seriously, parents are dangerously undereducated about the always on, always connected world in which their children live. ParentalTech exists for the purpose of helping parents get a clue. I promise, no posts about horses or 80s metal bands over there 
The site will be updated daily with analysis of what’s happening in tech, how it applies to our kids, and us as parents.
Any and all feedback is welcome.
7 Responses to “The newest, coolest blog on the Internet”
[...] “<a href=”http://www.parentaltech.com/”ParentalTech is blog about technology and kids, written for parents. Technology and internet culture are deeply ingrained into the lives of our children. This blog will help you keep up with them.” [...]
I applaud you! Did the recent Myspace-related suicide prompt your decision to start this blog?
Not really. The press actually did a pretty good job on that story of laying the blame on the adults involved, and not on the web site. I’ve been bouncing a few content site ideas around, and kept always talking myself out of the effort. With the Parentaltech idea, I could not find a reason to not do it. It’s a niche that is not being being served well, and some informal polling of friends indicated that its a niche that needs to be covered. So here we are.
I like to think I’m net-saavy enough to monitor what my kid is up to online, but… I’m not really.
Seems like there is some new network site, fan site (Legos, specifically) or something that he thinks he HAS to get into. It’s got to the point that I limit him severely simply because there are too many to keep up with and too many that lay a kid open to hostility, or worse, predators.
What I would like is to be able to go to one place and see a synopsis or comparison chart of various kid sites, categorized by age appropriateness, theme, features, etc. and then rated by a real human parent with real human kids of their own.
I DON’T need another site run by 13-20 year twats on faux-power trips giving me egregiously poor “advice.” There are enough of those already.
I’m not sure I want to subject myself to all those sites, but I beet I can find a reliable site that has already done it.
Sending at least three more viewers your way!!! Thanks … looking forward to it.
ParentalTech, hmn? I’ll check it out for Shaping Youth, where we write about media and marketing’s impact on kids…would love to pay it forward if it makes sense, as we’ve been trying to educate parents about the need for media savvy/critical thinking skills for QUITE some time.
In fact, I’m working on a post along these lines right now because media literacy is sorely lacking in the adult sphere when you get empty-eyed stares mentioning ‘SL’ or Habbo or Zwinky and such…much less the mobile media mashups where these folks are giving kids phones for ‘safety’ but literally putting the whole world in their hands without any clue about texting/cyberbullying or locker-room cell cams and MySpace uploads. sheesh.
Ping me to speak further. I’d love to hear what your goal is and see where we might mutually align…