by admin | Sep 18, 2013 | Bullying
What side of the fence do you stand on? Recently a school district in California hired a company to monitor their student’s social media. The firm is looking at public posts for red flags searching for possible violence, drug use, bullying, truancy and suicidal...
by admin | Sep 12, 2013 | Parenting tips
With all the joys of parenting, there are also a few things that may not be as enjoyable – one being THE talk. I think there are many factors that make it daunting; when do we have THE talk? Where do we begin? My Dad never had the talk with me, but I can tell you as a...
by admin | Sep 11, 2013 | Internet Safety
Many parents see the Internet as a distraction for their pre-teen and teenage children. They see the disadvantages that can come with spending time online – social media, addiction, and bullying, just to name a few. Other parents simply don’t have the money for a...
by admin | Sep 6, 2013 | Cybersafety
Monitoring your kids’ online activity used to be relatively easy. You simply limited their web access to a family computer that was kept in an open and highly trafficked area of the home. Now, though, most teens are using their smartphones to access the web, which...
by admin | Sep 5, 2013 | Internet Safety
Our kids are growing up in an age when sharing is ubiquitous and encouraged. But kids aren’t born understanding how to manage social media privacy settings or why it’s important to do so. It’s up to us as parents to guide them, just the same as teaching them how to...
by admin | Sep 4, 2013 | Internet Safety
A recent study in the journal Pediatrics revealed that a third of teenage girls have met in person with someone they originally met online. Thanks to video apps like Vine and video-chatting software like Skype, verifying a person’s identity online is much easier...
by admin | Sep 3, 2013 | Parenting Teens
ADHD: It is a common diagnosis and I am very familiar with it since my son was ADHD. Today however, I think many are quick to DX and even quicker to prescribe medications. Stimulants prescribed to treat conditions like narcolepsy and attention deficit hyperactivity...
by admin | Aug 27, 2013 | Parenting Teens
There once was a time before spell check or smart phones were around. A time that you had to be knowledgeable about grammar and spelling to communicate properly through letters or texts with each other without looking ignorant. Nowadays you have spell check on any...
by admin | Aug 22, 2013 | Anti-Bullying Programs
Bullying today is no longer limited to verbal and physical actions. Text and online bullying has become a serious problem among adolescents and teens. Almost 9 out of 10 teens have a cell phone and about 1 in 5 will be victims of a text bully. About 1 in 10 teens...
by admin | Aug 17, 2013 | Cyberbullying
It has been several years since Google Bomb was launched and I don’t think a week goes by that I don’t still receive emails from victims that have been viciously attacked online. Who are these people? They can range from professionals such as doctors,...
