Helping Your Teen with College Preperation

The junior and senior years in high school are a time filled with excitement, anxiety and anticipation, for both teens and their parents. Questions about the future loom large, and matters concerning the college admissions process are always high on the list....

10 Ways to Avoid Fighting with Your Teen

When you’re raising a teenager, your house can feel like a war-zone that’s scattered with potential land mines masquerading as casual questions. Every interaction can feel like it has the potential to blow up in your respective faces, leaving parents wondering what...

Share These Best Web Practices With Your Teen

All too often, we’re advised to talk to teens about the Internet in the emphatic, wide-eyed sort of way that trips all their alarms: Warning, warning, clueless parent ahead! Sure, there are plenty of traps and dangers lurking on the Web for a naive young person....

How to Monitor Your Teen’s Online Social Life

The Internet is an invaluable tool for teenagers, allowing them access to information that would have required their parents to spend hours in the library with a card catalog and stack of reference books. For all of the vast stores of information online, there are...

15 Common Internet Scams and How to Avoid Them

The Internet is a powerful resource that connects you to the rest of the world and helps you access knowledge in the blink of any eye. It can also, however, put you in the precarious position of sussing out legitimate offers versus complete cons. These 15 Internet...

Parenting Teens

Parenting is daunting from the beginning. When children are born they are so small and helpless and most of us have no idea what we are doing. They seem so fragile in our large unsure hands. And then as they grow we worry that we are giving them all the right tools to...

Anti-Bullying Apps and Pink Shirt Day

February 27th is Pink Shirt Day.  Bullying is problem throughout the world, no one is immune to this issue. Bullying is a major problem in our schools, workplaces, homes, and over the Internet. Bullying and the prevention of it has become a major focus in our schools...