by admin | Dec 11, 2012 | Internet Safety
Ahhh vacation—a luxury that all families, with any luck, get to enjoy at least once annually. Or we could be talking about holiday time off from school when kids have more time in front of their screens and not with family. Now that technology has become such an...
by admin | Dec 6, 2012 | Online Safety
The National Retail Federation estimates online purchases for the 2012 holiday season will reach $96 billion, up 12 percent from 2011. Scammers, hackers, and “phishermen” have already taken their positions, waiting for the next unwitting shopper to...
by admin | Dec 5, 2012 | Parenting Teens
You hear about it all the time, a teen has started a great online business and it’s making tons of money, getting lots of recognition, and turning into something beyond anyone’s dreams. Now your teen has that great idea, or maybe just the drive and motivation, and he...
by admin | Nov 30, 2012 | Online Safety
In a time when Facebook and Twitter are the new normal for conversation, it is nice to hear that teens and parents are concerned about privacy issues online. A new poll finds that many parents have new concerns about their children and their privacy online. The Pew...
by admin | Nov 28, 2012 | Internet Safety
Picture this: It’s early evening. You’re starting to make dinner when your daughter asks you what the final score was in the OSU/UO civil war game. You don’t know the answer, so you tell her to look it up online. “No biggie,” you think. “She’s ten; she knows what to...
by admin | Nov 26, 2012 | Cybersafety
With many parents online shopping it also means more adults with not the same motives will be online also. Do your kids practice online safety measures? Children today are growing up with the Internet as a regular part of life, yet the World-Wide-Web was fairly new...
by admin | Nov 21, 2012 | Holiday gifts
Do you have that one person that is a struggle to buy for? Someone that has everything? The holidays are upon us and that means it’s time for families to come together and celebrate. What better way to celebrate togetherness than reading books. Papersalt, a...
by admin | Nov 20, 2012 | Parenting Teens
Teens and cellphones are connected like our hands to our wrists. However when it comes to holidays and especially our Thanksgiving dinner table maybe we can ask for some disconnect time? To help keep harmony when your family gathers next week, here are a few tips from...
by admin | Nov 20, 2012 | Internet Safety
With the holidays here, kids have more free time – college students will be home for break and this can add up to more online time. This is a perfect opportunity for everyone to remind our kids of all ages about Internet safety and social networking privacy...
by admin | Nov 12, 2012 | Parenting Teens
“I think my teen is abusing alcohol.” Every parent, at some point or another, comes across a fear that brings them to their knees: teen drinking. Unfortunately, statistics show that this problem is more common than most parents want to admit. An article on...
