Powerful Protection for Kids

A good time to consider using parental controls is when your kid gets their first device or smartphone or starts using a device without supervision. 

Aura’s parental controls help you to understand and control your child’s activities on their devices. For example, you can block inappropriate content, set time limits for specific apps and receive notifications when they go over, view their web browser history, and get insights into their online activity. 

Kids today are surrounded by technology and their relationship with it changes over time. At times, you may want to consider adjusting your parental controls settings for each child’s account. Aura Parental Controls are flexible and customizable making them a great tool for kids of all ages.

It’s never too late to talk to kids about online safety, but experts and parents agree: the sooner, the better. 

Talking to your kids about why online safety is important is much more impactful than setting rules and boundaries without explanation. During your talk, make sure to address issues, such as:

• Screen time: Explain the need for screen-free time and why you will set limits on your child’s device.
• Social media: Show them how social networking sites work and what’s appropriate (or not) to share.
• Mature content: Warn them about adult content and make sure they know who to talk to if they come across it.
• Malware: Explain how viruses make devices sick and how they should ask before downloading apps or trying to watch tv shows on streaming sites you haven’t approved. 
• Online privacy: Teach your children not to share private or personal information online — even their address, school name, or phone number.

Talking to your kids about online safety and screen time is a lot like talking to them about any other activity with clear rules and boundaries (following a curfew or driving a car for the first time). If you start from the outset, there are fewer surprises down the road.

Aura Parental Controls work with Apple iPhones and iPads (iOS 13 or later) as well as Android mobile devices (Android 9.0 or later).

Aura has partnered with Kidas to offer Safe Gaming powered by ProtectMe as part of Family plans. ProtectMe is gaming’s safest privacy and protection software for your family’s PC. Kidas scans all gaming-related communications in the background and sends alerts to your email if cyberbullying or online predators are detected. Each week, you’ll get a full report with your child’s overall threat severity exposure score, a break down of all threats detected, and gaming time insights. Install the software to your child’s PC to get instantly connected and protected. 

Take the next step to protect your child online. Call us at 1-844-939-3681 to learn more about our award-winning child safety features.

Cyberbullying is defined as “any bullying that takes place over a digital device.” This includes using text messages, apps, social media, or video games to send, post, or share negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else. The most common place it occurs is on the sites, games, and chat forums on which your kids spend a lot of time. 

Cyberbullying is prone to causing mental health issues such as depression and anxiety for both the victim and perpetrator. 

StopBullying.Gov outlines the following warning signs if a child is being cyberbullied. This often occurs around a child’s use of their device:

• Noticeable increases or decreases in device use, including texting.
• A child exhibits emotional responses (laughter, anger, upset) to what is happening on their device.
• A child hides their screen or device when others are near, and avoids discussion about what they are doing on their device.
• Social media accounts are shut down or new ones appear.
• A child starts to avoid social situations, even those that were enjoyed in the past.
• A child becomes withdrawn or depressed, or loses interest in people and activities.

Take the next step to protect your child online. Call us at 1-844-939-3681 to learn more about our award-winning child safety features.

Safe Gaming works with over 200 games on Windows PC. The full list of games covered includes popular games like Apex Legends, Roblox, Fortnite, World of Warcraft, and Discord.

Safe Gaming only monitors in-game communication on PC’s using Windows OS.

Safe Gaming monitors communications in PC games and gaming-related communication platforms. Currently, text chat is only monitored in Roblox. Text monitoring in more games will continue to be added.

Safe Gaming supports computers that run on Windows Operating systems.

Safe Gaming does not run on tablets, smartphones, Chromebooks or Mac computers. Safe Gaming works with Windows 10/11 64bit.