You know the feeling. It is 1am, you are three streets from a flat you moved into four days ago, and your battery is sitting at 1%. Everyone around you is new. Their numbers live in a phone that is about to go flat, and you could not tell anyone your address if you tried. […]
There is a photograph almost every parent takes at the start of September. A child in a blazer that is slightly too big, standing by the front door, bag on both shoulders, trying to look older than they feel. Starting secondary school is one of the biggest steps in childhood, and for most families it […]
There is a particular summer that arrives in every family without much warning. The one where your teenager goes away without you for the first time. A week in Salou with five friends, a festival, a first trip to see a mate who moved away, an inter-railing loop around Europe. You say yes because saying […]
Ask most parents whether their child would know what to do if something went wrong while they were out, and the answer is usually yes. We picture them staying calm, calling for help, telling someone where they are. It is a comforting picture. New research suggests it is often not the real one. What the […]
Every family holiday has a queue in it somewhere. This year, the one at passport control is doing something new. Travelling through the EU entry exit system with children is not complicated, but it is different from anything British families have done before, and it is much easier if you know what is coming before […]
There is a particular kind of calm that comes from opening an app and seeing a small blue dot exactly where it should be. School. A friend’s house. The train home. The dot is there, so they are there, and you can put your phone back in your pocket and get on with your evening. […]
Is facial recognition safe? It is a fair question to be asking this summer. In recent weeks the police have pushed live facial recognition further into British city centres, including central London. A newer approach lets an officer scan a face from a phone in the street. The Government has been consulting on a legal […]
We want to start this month with a question rather than an answer. It is one we have not been able to put down, and over the next few weeks we are going to try to earn the right to answer it properly. Here it is. If your child needed you this afternoon, really needed […]
When a school introduces a mobile phone policy, the costs that get signed off are the obvious ones. Pouches, lockable wallets, lockers, and a line in the budget for replacing them each year. Those costs are planned, approved and understood. The cost that never makes it into the business case is the one that arrives […]
Summer is the season of departure lounges, motorway service stations and that first proper exhale when the holiday finally begins. It is also the time of year when families are most spread out, most reliant on a single phone, and most likely to hit the small problems that turn a relaxed trip into a stressful […]
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