by admin | Aug 14, 2013 | Parenting Blogs
Baffle That Bully is a quick read that will provide parents and young children the opportunity to discuss bullying and work on a strategy for deflecting it. The book is written for elementary school children by providing examples they can relate to giving the book...
by admin | Aug 9, 2013 | Parenting Teens
Wilderness Ventures, the oldest and most experienced adventure travel program offering teen summer camps, is announcing their unique Leadership Adventures for late high school and early college students for 2014. Wilderness Ventures’ ‘gap year’ experiences offer...
by admin | Aug 8, 2013 | Distracted driving
Teenage drivers + cell phones = distracted driving. Parents + cell phones = distracting driving. Or does it? Schools are opening around the country and many teens look forward to driving themselves to class. Many more are excited to have their friends ride with...
by admin | Aug 7, 2013 | Parenting
What are your children watching on television and online? Mindful parents know children cannot easily escape advertisements for pills, tablets, potions, creams, and lotions. The once safe zone of the evening news is punctuated with blurbs about four-hour erections,...
by admin | Aug 5, 2013 | Bullying prevention
STOMP Out Bullying™ announces its partnership with Bon-Ton Stores Inc. for the Fifth Annual BLUE SHIRT DAY™ WORLD DAY OF BULLYING PREVENTION to kickoff National Bullying Prevention Awareness month during October. The BLUE SHIRT DAY™ WORLD DAY OF BULLYING PREVENTION is...
by admin | Aug 2, 2013 | Bullying prevention
Schools will be open soon and although we know bullies didn’t take the summer off, the cafeteria bullies have had a summer break. Lunchroom bullying like schoolyard bullying are hotspots in schools. We haven’t heard a lot about food allergy...
by admin | Jul 27, 2013 | Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying is the use of technology to harass, threaten, frighten, humiliate, trick, expose, or otherwise harm a person in a deliberate and/or repeated manner. In 1996, the Columbine massacre changed national attitudes on bullying, while the dawn of the...
by admin | Jul 25, 2013 | Internet Safety
Catfish, once a term used to describe a certain aquatic creature, is now the source of plenty of frustration and worry among parents of teens. As the Huffington Post explains, the modern definition of catfish involves the creation of a fake profile on Facebook,...
by admin | Jul 23, 2013 | Bullying
Within the next few weeks schools across the country will be opening their doors. Parents are already purchasing school supplies their child will need. Some parents with teens leaving for college are preparing for their empty nest ~ travel plans and the extra...
by admin | Jul 20, 2013 | Online Safety
MamaBear notifications to parents monitoring their child’s (teen’s) Instagram account seem to spike during the summer. Instagram has been popular with smartphone wielding teens since the initial launch of the photo sharing app and the app now has over 80 million...
