Is Grok Safe for Teens? What Parents Should Do Tonight
Common Sense Media says teens should not use Grok. Here is what xAI's age rule and Kids Mode do and do not cover, what to do if your teenager already has it, and what to say tonight.
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What Do GoGuardian and Gaggle See on My Child's School Laptop?
GoGuardian watches the school browser. Gaggle scans the school account. Here is what each can see, whether it runs at home, who reads the alerts, and six questions to send your child's school.
Is Meta AI Safe for Kids? What Parents Can Now See, and What They Cannot
Meta AI sits inside Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook, and Meta only added parent supervision for it in 2026. Here is what the evidence says, what you can see, and what to say to your teen.
What Can the School See on My Teen's Personal Account?
Your teen's own ChatGPT or Google account is not something the school can open. But a school laptop and the school Wi-Fi change the answer. Here is the account, device and network rule, a table you can keep, and a two-minute check to do together tonight.
Can You Put Parental Controls on a School Chromebook? What to Do Instead
If your child's laptop and their account both belong to the school, Google says plainly that parents cannot add controls. Here is how to tell which of three setups you have, what you can still control, and what to ask the school about AI on a device it manages.
How to Turn Off AI on Your Child's Phone, and What Has No Off Switch
Four AI settings you can genuinely switch off tonight, on iPhone, Android, Snapchat and Instagram, and the honest list of what has no off switch at all, starting with the AI answers at the top of every Google search.
Is Replika Safe for Teenagers? What to Do If Your Child Has It
Replika's terms of service put the app at 18 and over, and Apple rates it 18+, so for a teenager this is not a settings decision. What two named assessments found, why a European regulator called the age check deficient, and the exact steps to block it on an iPhone or an Android phone tonight.
Is ChatGPT Safe for Kids? What a School Leader Would Tell You
A straight answer, age by age, from someone who has sat in the safeguarding meetings. What ChatGPT now does for 13 to 17 year olds, what parental controls will and will not reach, and the two minutes tonight that matter more than any setting.
What Data Does ChatGPT Collect About My Child? The Two Settings That Change It
ChatGPT keeps your child's chats, uploads, date of birth, device and approximate location, and on a personal account those chats can help train the model. Two settings change that, and a school-managed account reverses the whole trade.
Is Roblox AI Chat Safe for My Child? What the Controls Miss
Roblox now age-checks every player before they can chat, which is a real improvement. But the AI characters inside games are built by developers, and Roblox's own parental controls page says your chat settings do not reach them. Here is what does cover them, the one question to ask your child, and what to do at each age.
How to Block AI Apps on Android, and Why the School Chromebook Is Different
Family Link will switch off a named AI app on your child's Android phone in about five minutes, and a second menu stops the next one installing at all. Google's Gemini switch sits apart from both, and is not offered for supervised accounts in the UK. None of it touches the account your child's school issued.
How to Block AI Apps on Your Child's iPhone, and What It Will Not Cover
Blocking a named AI app on an iPhone takes about two minutes. The harder part is everything the block does not cover, because most of the AI your child meets was never installed by anybody.