by admin | Jun 29, 2013 | Internet Safety
What can parents do to keep their teens safe online? Parenting has been a frightening proposition since the beginning of time, but parents today are faced with challenges no generation has ever faced: raising children who have spent their entire lives immersed in the...
by admin | Jun 27, 2013 | Cyberbullying
It used to be the case that parents just puzzled over their teens’ calculus homework; now parents have the added challenge of hashtags and embed codes. That’s because parents must become role models online as well as offline, since the separation between those worlds...
by admin | Jun 26, 2013 | Online Safety
Good parents want to teach their children to walk and run, but still protect them when they fall. Healthy parenting is finding a balance between opportunity and risk. Children need to have the opportunity to grow and explore with as little risk of endangerment as...
by admin | Jun 22, 2013 | Cyberbullying
Everyone talks about bullying and cyber bullying prevention and now that summer is here and school is out, kids don’t have the support of a guidance counselor or an anti-bullying prevention team at school to report bullying to or a possible peer support group to...
by admin | Jun 15, 2013 | Parenting Teens
This is a guest post and the name is withheld upon request. I believe it is a very powerful true story that can be your story or someone you know. There is never any shame in being honest with yourself and your family–it is the first step to recovery...
by admin | Jun 13, 2013 | Internet Safety
Schools everywhere are working on ways to make it easier for kids to access documents needed for homework and classroom assignments. One of the services utilized is called Google Apps for Education. This is a cloud service that makes it possible for students to...
by admin | Jun 11, 2013 | Blogging
Summer is here and travel time is easier with a tablet – let’s face it, it just is! According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center, tablet adoption is on a blistering pace, with parents leading the way. For the first time, a third (34%) of...
by admin | Jun 6, 2013 | Parenting Blogs
Wow, I was thrilled and honored to be notified that I had not one, but two of my sites (Blog sites) listed in a recent Top 20 Parenting Blogs and Websites by Wilderness Ventures. For over a decade I have been helping parents with struggling teens after my own...
by admin | Jun 6, 2013 | Parenting tips
One of the biggest problems with teens today is that they do not seem to have any ambition. They are happy to live at home with their parents for the rest of their lives or work dead end jobs making just enough to pay the rent on an apartment with their friends....
by admin | Jun 3, 2013 | Internet Safety
June is National Internet Safety month! It’s hard to believe June is already here, and many students are already out of school for the summer! The free time during summer gives kids ample opportunities to test boundaries as they explore the Internet, on both the home...