Protecting our children in the age of the iPad.

In an age when our children are being given iPads at school at an increasingly earlier age, even to take home with no filters/restrictions on them at all, what are parents to do? Children read about pernicious deceptions like "Safe Schools" on their school iPads news feeds and then click on the websites to see what they are all about and suddenly we have lost our children. Do we just abandon our children to the ever darkening culture or do we act to protect and love those entrusted to us to protect and love?

​The following article may be of some interest: Apps and Internet Doorways: What Parents Need to Know  by Chris McKenna • Kids are using different doorways to the Internet than the one we used when we were growing up. It’s no longer just enough to monitor the browser. Parents need to make an inventory of all of the different ways their kids can access the Internet and know the risks and benefits of the apps their kids use.  Instagram, Pinterest, Musical.ly, and Twitter are full of pornographic video and picture content, just a few clicks away in the “search” feature. Due to the lack of parental controls, these searches can be deleted without you ever knowing.
Specific to the issue of pornography, mom and dad, did you know?

• Instagram, Pinterest, Musical.ly, and Twitter are full of pornographic video and picture content, just a few clicks away in the “search” feature. Due to the lack of parental controls, these searches can be deleted without you ever knowing.
• Through Instagram, kids can access Tumblr (rated 17+ in the app store for its large quantities of X-rated content), and the Google, Bing and Yahoo search engines without ever leaving the app. These search engines are unfiltered and unmonitored.
• Kik gives kids access YouTube, Google, and a large number of other “sub-apps” within Kik, giving them access to search whatever they want.
• Google, Yahoo or Bing search engine apps circumvent the parental controls you might set up through the “Restrictions” on your iPhone® or iPad®.
• Through the “About” section of the Twitter and Facebook pages for Google, Bing or Yahoo, you can perform an unfiltered Internet search that isn’t covered by the “Restrictions” enabled on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod.

So, what's the solution?