How Do You Explain Internet Safety to Your Parents Without Making Them Feel Stupid? The hardest part was never the phone. It was figuring out how to say it out loud. I rehearsed a phone call in my car once. Sat in the driveway with the engine off, ran through it like I was about to walk into a job interview. "Hey Mom, so, I saw something about a new scam going around, and I just wanted to mention, not because I think you'd fall for it or anything, just, you know, in case". I

Hey, welcome back to Tech 4 Grown-Ups. I'm Michael. Today, I want to talk about something a little different. Most of the time on this show, I'm talking directly to you, the person who wants to feel more confident, more safe, more in control of their digital life, and we're going to keep doing that. But today, I want to talk to the other half of this community. That's the adult children, the sons and daughters and grandchildren who are watching a parent or a grandparent navig

Learning something new is always easier when someone patient is sitting right beside you. That's exactly what this community is here for. A man reached out to our community a few weeks ago, I'll call him Doug, because he was at his wit's end. His 78-year-old mother had nearly wired $4,000 to someone claiming to be her grandson in trouble overseas. She had almost done it. The only reason she didn't was because the bank teller got suspicious and slowed the transaction down lon