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Every kid wants to enjoy the fun of trick-or-treating with friends on Halloween night. Many parents remember the joy of running through the neighborhood in the dark collecting ungodly amounts of candy. To help parents take family safety measures in a smartphone connected world this Halloween, the team at MamaBear Family Safety App compiled a list of safety tips they shared on the MamaBear blog.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) and the makers of MamaBear Family Safety App are helping raise awareness about the importance of cyber safety.

MamaBear App, the first-ever all-in-one parenting app to monitor location, social media and safe-speed driving, announced today a number of enhancements to help both children and parents.

As cyberbullying reaches epidemic proportions among our nation's youth, an increasing number of school districts around the nation are adopting a new strategy to manage their students' behavior: They are hiring firms to monitor their students' social media behavior. By nipping concerning behaviors in the bud before they get out of hand, schools hope they will be able to curb the growing number of incidences of cyberbullying, tween and teen suicides and other antisocial behaviors.

September is National Preparedness Month. It is a time for families to focus on preparing emergency plans.

As any parent of a middle schooler knows, the transition from elementary to middle school isn't always easy. A whole new world of opportunities – and challenges – opens up to a child. Middle school is, perhaps, the first time many tweens will have their own mobile devices and it is the first time many of them will use social media. As a result, much of a middle schooler's social world exists via apps like Instagram, Kik and facebook.

"Stranger danger" is a term most school-age kids and their parents know. The phrase refers to the dangers associated with older strangers preying on innocent victims. While the term has been around for decades, it has a new dimension: internet stranger danger.

Horror stories abound worldwide about cyberbullying and the devastating outcomes of a child being picked on via the internet. Instances of cyberbullying can lead to social isolation, depression and even suicide on the part of the bullying victim.

Parents and children across America are gearing up for an exciting new school year. But with all the excitement also comes worry: How safe are their children in their kid’s new physical surroundings as well as their technological environment when using smartphones, computers and other connected devices?

The increasingly popular MamaBear family monitoring app has rolled out updated versions for both iOS and Android platforms this summer. The powerful family monitoring app launched last www.sbwire.com/account/distribute/release/manage/publish/?id=295047 summer and has received international attention and intense media recognition across the United States. MamaBear offers families a powerful, flexible and customizable set of family monitoring tools that help parents worry less about their children on social media and in the real world.