Most people don’t think much about how they communicate, and even less so about how they learned to communicate. It’s only when you are in the situation many of us who are providing a mobile phone for a child with autism, ADHD, or some other… Read More »Mobile Phones for Children with Autism

What is a ParentShield Home Number? A ParentShield Home Number is a special phone number that is treated differently to other numbers that a ParentShield user communicates with. Because ParentShield includes many optional and powerful blocking mechanisms for Child Protection it’s important that Parents set… Read More »ParentShield Home Numbers

Mobile Phone Services are targeted by hackers and stalkers because they have traditionally presented an easy target. Although mobile networks have improved their processes considerably, very few phone accounts are protected by the necessary security controls to keep their users safe from hacking or identity… Read More »Higher Security Mobile

EE is massive in the UK, with 26 million subscribers. It’s huge, and has grown to its current size by swallowing up the old Orange, BT Mobile and T-Mobile networks in the UK and rolling them all into a single brand – Everything Everywhere, or… Read More »EE SIM Only Deal for Kids

Age-Restricted applications such as WhatsApp and TikTok require the phone user to verify installation and phone number by sending an SMS message to the phone. This means that with a SIM from an adult mobile network, any child can simply lie about their age (… Read More »Protecting Children from age restricted apps

Are you looking for a No Data SIM for a child? ParentShield is designed for Child Protection and has exactly what you need. But What are the considerations when buying a No-Data Mobile Contract? What will it do, what won’t it do? and what are… Read More »No Data SIM CARD – FAQ

At ParentShield we regularly provide advice and help to Parents having difficulty with children and their mobile phones. Here are a few of the common mistakes parents tell us they have made, just in case they help other parents avoid the same problems. Internet Messaging… Read More »Safely introducing a child to their first Mobile Phone

We were approached last week by the charity Yorkshire Children’s Trust. YC Trust does some great things supporting parents of children who need extended stays in hospital, or are very poorly. We have agreed to will provide reduced cost SIM contracts to the Charity’s users… Read More »ParentShield and Yorkshire Children’s Trust

WhatsApp is, by far, the most popular messaging application. It is an encrypted, private messaging service by Meta (formerly Facebook). You can make calls as well as send messages, pictures and videos over WhatsApp. With this in mind, you may be tempted to give your… Read More »Monitoring WhatsApp