Here are some of the best apps that can help you as a parent in terms of monitoring your child's activities, and achievements and helping them with their homework.
Life 360: As a parent, you are often worried about where your kids are when they are not at home. If you have handed over a phone to your kid, you already have a solution to this problem. The app Life 360 allows you to keep track of where your child has been. With few subscription tiers, the app also offers the option to add family members so that everyone is aware of where the other is. On top of that, one can also keep a check on the estimated travel speed, thus allowing you to check if your child is maintaining the speed limit on the road.
Find My Kids: It is nother app, which facilitates tracking of your child. It's features come at a starting price of $2.99 per month. With the use of this phone, parents can set 'safe zones' for their kids. Additionally, they can track both phones. Secondly, Find My Apps also offers GPS watches for kids who are not old enough to use a smartphone. The app also comes in with a basic messaging feature. This messaging feature is incorporated with digital sticker notes.
The Wonder Weeks: This is a baby development tracker app. The app allows parents to input their child's birth details and keep track of the milestones they achieve as they grow up through their early years. The app also presents a plethora of resources for first-time parents. The app also features music players with lullabies and additional white noise for moments when they need to count sheep at bedtime.
The app starts at $4.99: Parents who are looking for various answers about their newborn can resort to this app. They can find solutions for problems like why their child is fussy and not sleeping. They can also compare the milestones with expected growth milestones.
Qustodio: This app comes in with the most amount of features. The plans for this app start at $54.95 per year. Parents using this app have the option to filter content and initiate alerts for certain activities and interactions. Additionally, they can also limit screen time. This app is also capable of tracking messages and calls. Thus it helps detect suspicious contacts. Moreover, the phone gives off alerts whenever an adult or suspicious website is being accessed. To top it al, the app also possesses a tracking option.
Bark: Bark forwards monitoring duties to algorithms and AI. The aim is to detect when a child is dealing with problems such as suicidal tendencies, cyber-bullying, and sexting. On noticing any of the mentioned problems, the app alerts the parents. The review is not directly meant to be carried out by the parents entirely. The app monitors the activities for problems and alerts the parents when suspicions arise. According to Bark, the app is a digital safety net for children.The app lets the children find sense in their online activities and alerts the parents when any form of issue surfaces. The price of Bark services ranges between $5 to $14 per month.
Brainly: Brainly comes in as homework assistance for kids having trouble with their homework or parents who wants to help their kids with their homework. This app is billed as an app meant to help with homework. From maths problems to history lessons, this platform is an amalgamation of parents and students in a crowdsourced study hall. The app, however, does not directly provide the answers, but rather has an honor code. It is clearly meant to help students and parents with their homework problems and not directly solve them.
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