This post is sponsored by Identron, all opinions are my own.

Last Summer my husband and I’s bank accounts were hacked, thankfully our bank caught it right away and we were able to get a handle on it very quickly before it got to out of hand. I love the internet and all things online, if you’ve spent any amount of time with me here you know that. I believe the internet can be used for good and I’ve seen that. Along with that I think we have to be smart in how we use the internet and practically protect ourselves and our children from fraud and identity theft.

One million kids last year were effected by identity theft! That is a crazy amount, I didn’t even realize it was that high. Just the other day I got something in the mail addressed to my nine year old from an online study program, it really made me think about the forms we fill out with our kids names, addresses and other info and how all that can become public information and be sold to third parties without you even knowing it.

This was something I’d never thought about. How about you? So, when Identron reached out to me and provided me with the education I was missing I was onboard to learn and share with all of you.

Identron offers comprehensive identity protect for you and your entire family! They monitor your child’s Social Security number and look for any suspicious activity. A few other services they provide:

Dark web monitoring
USA change of address updates
Sex offender registry
US Based ID recovery team
Bank account monitoring
Credit Bureau monitoring

Check out their comprehensive plans for children here and for adults here.

A tip that we use when filling out forms at various places is not to put their SSN on any paper work, when it’s not necessary. Of coarse some medical forms will ask for this but if we know they have already asked for this and we’ve put it down on originals we will not write it down again let’s say for a routine check up or sick visit.

A few ways we safe guard our kids while they are online and using devices, we limit screen time. We monitor it closely. They are not allowed to go into their rooms with their devices alone unmonitored. We also have Netflix and other streaming shows set to an age appropriate setting. They can not watch anything over a certain age limit. Visit Identron’s tip page for more tips on this subject.

I invite you to check out Identron, their site is full of useful information and protection plans for your family. Only us as parents are going to protect our children, I am reminded no one is going to do that job but me and I want to be informed and armed with the best tools.

Check out Identron’s comprehensive plans and help here.

Andrea Worley