The new, free service provides more information for parents using the FreeTime app.
Hard at work at the Strawberry Shortcake beauty salon.
My 4-year-old daughter often nabs my wife’s iPhone and disappears for hours into the YouTube Kids app. We intermittently check on what she’s watching, but it’s hard to keep track of every video.
Since lots of parents deal with this issue, Amazon decided to roll out a new way to check on your kid’s digital diet. It’s a service for its FreeTime kids’ apps, called Parent Dashboard.
The dashboard, which is free to use starting Wednesday and can be accessed from any web browser at parents.amazon.com , provides daily activity reports on each of your accounts on FreeTime, an app that provides a gated, age-appropriate experience for kids on Amazon Fire tablets. The new website also offers handy flash cards on many kids’ books and games, to give parents quickly digestible information on the items their kids are looking at in the app.
« I would love to see parents engaging more with their kids, using this information to further customize their child’s experience in [FreeTime] to make the product better for kids, » said Kurt Beidler, Amazon’s kids and family director.
