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Deranged Sorority Girl Email Teachable Moment: Post Something Epically Stupid & it will Go Viral
What Parents Can Learn From "The Most Deranged Sorority Girl Email You Will Ever Read” The President of Delta Gamma Sorority at the University of Maryland recently resigned after her “amazing” ...
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RAT Software Offers a New Level of Creepy: Hackers Spying on Your Kids
Watch out! RAT software offers a new level of creepy. Hackers can easily spy on your kids. Chances are your computer (and your kid’s computer) has a webcam. This great…unless ...
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Why Anger on the Internet is Bad for You (and Your Kids!)
Digital Discourse May Increase Your Anger: Civility In The Digital Age Is Good for You How many times have you experienced anger on the Internet? How many times do you feel ...
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High School Football Players Violate Young Teens
High School Football Players + Bad Behavior Again? Not again. It sounds very similar to what recently went down in Ohio. There are two high school football players accused of sexual ...
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When Kids Create Websites to Insult Other Kids
A Note to Our Readers: This article is by our Legal Expert, Andrew Agaston, in an effort to educate parents about the dangers of when a website is created using ...
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Girl Model Movie
Why Parents Should Care about the Movie Ever wonder to yourself, why do the models look so very skinny and luminous? After watching Girl Model Movie, you will know that they ...
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What is the Harlem Shake?
Seems like “everyone” is talking about the Harlem Shake…and you may be wondering what it is. The Harlem Shake is an Internet meme that went viral on YouTube in February 2013. ...
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Is Catfishing Illegal?
The Manti Te’o story has garnered, if not gripped, the attention of millions of people across the United States and the world. After reading Lisa Shaw’s article on this site, ...
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What is Catfishing and Why You Should Care
What is Catfishing? Some parents may be wondering what the term “catfishing” means. Catfishing is the faking the identity of a person online in order to carrying out a relationship. Right ...
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Teenage Driving and Texting
Texting while driving is considered the most distracting teenage driving behavior, increasing crash risk by 400 percent. Yet 77% of young drivers report being very confident or somewhat confident that ...
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Facebook’s Privacy Settings = Confusion
Facebook’s Privacy Settings: Confusing for Everyone, Even Founder’s Sister Earlier in the week, Mark Zuckerburg’s sister, Randi, posted a picture on her personal Facebook profile. (Mark Zuckerburg is the founder of ...
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TEN MYTHS OF A SCHOOL SHOOTER
I wanted to first thank all of you for your kind words and thoughts about me and what I do, and for talking about my work and my book on ...
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A New Year’s Resolution that Will Save Your Teens’ Lives – Did I mention it’s free?
It’s that time of year again, time to start making New Year’s Resolutions! The New Year represents the promise of a new beginning and is a great time for self ...
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12 Myths of Protecting Your Kids Online
If you’re a parent, there’s a good chance that new technology gifts are coming into your home this time of year. Lots of kids will be getting new computers, laptops ...
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Summarizing the Legal (And Non-Legal) Landscape before a Lawyer Consultation
I hope that the previous three articles regarding cyber bullying and the public school’s response have been helpful in laying the legal groundwork regarding the rules and standards that apply ...
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Snapchat- Kids Can Send Explicit Pictures that Self Destruct
What is It? Heard of Snapchat? If you have teens, chances are they have heard of it and most likely have received a picture sent using it. Snapchat is a new ...
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Teens and Technology – Increased Risk for Depression and Anxiety
If you have kids you likely have computers, cell phones, and other gadgets in your home. You might worry about cyberbullying, sexting, or just plain distractions. Today’s children now have ...
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Parasite Porn – Is Your Teen Being Invaded?
Your teen is writing her resume and preparing for her first job interviews, or her first college application and visits to campus. She has included babysitting, lifeguarding duties in the ...
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“Four more years”
With a touch of a screen, these words were tweeted around the world. This is not a political commentary. It’s simply an important observation to emphasize: The newly re-elected President of ...
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Digital Reputation Management
Teens Can Use the Internet To Improve Their Reputations When most parents hear the phrase digital reputation management in relation to their teens, they might conjure up images of social media ...
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Internet Gambling – Are My Kids at Risk?
Social media sites, texting, sexting, and cyberbullying – these are some topics you are likely to discuss with your teenagers when it comes to technology. These are the kinds of ...
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Hunter Moore Is Involved In Sextortion, Using Your Pics To Make Money
Did you know until earlier this year, there was a site called Is Anyone Up? Here’s how the site worked: someone anonymously submitted nude photos to a person named Hunter ...
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How Online Predators Groom their Victims
How Online Predators Groom their Victims The very thought of a digital predator gaining access to your child online is chilling. If your children use social media, play games online, or ...
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Don’t Raise a Criminal: Teaching Children To Use Technology Legally
You probably didn’t set forth in your parenting goals to raise a criminal. You’ve been teaching your kids to use manners, to respect property and people, and understand responsible behavior. ...
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Internet Gambling – Kids at Risk
Online predators, texting, sexting, social media sites – these are some of the most common concerns for parents when it comes to their kids and technology. However, a more silent ...
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Are You Ruining Your Child’s Reputation?
In this new and technology infused generation, parents have more to worry about than just the reputations that their children build on the playground and in the classroom. Now kids ...
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Sexcasting, The Latest Threat To America’s youth
October marks National Cyber Security Awareness month, and now more than ever our children need us to stop and think about what actions we as parents can take to protect ...
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Sexting and Driving: One More Concern for Parents
It used to be that a parent’s biggest concern when it came to teens driving was … driving. Now parents and their teens are faced with the dangers of cell ...
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What Is Sextortion?
Your spellchecker might not like it and your dictionary might not include it as a word, but sextortion is a real, dangerous possibility for teenagers. You have probably heard of ...
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The “Dear Colleague” Letter, Part II
Understanding the public schools’ legal duties to protect students from discriminatory conduct arising from off-campus cyber bullying This is the third in a series of posts regarding public school responsibility for bullying ...
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Forever Exposed and Never the Same: Legal Lethal Weapons that Destroy Lives
Keyboard. Mouse. Cell phone with a camera. Computer. Trolls. All the makings for an innocent life to be ruined in a matter of minutes. A career to be destroyed with a few keystrokes and a ...
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Teens and Online Reputation: Building a Blog and Creating Your Positive Digital Image
Today we hear a lot about businesses and professionals that are hiring reputation management companies to help them maintain their virtual image. It is something that has just about replaced ...
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Dear School Personnel, Community Members, Teachers, Parents and Neighbors
Note From PTK Staff: We are sharing this post with you because we recognize the additional challenges that parents with special needs face when protecting their kids online. For example, children ...
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Concerned About Privacy? Get Over It: 4 Myths About Monitoring Your Kids Online Debunked
Parents spend an incredible amount of resources parenting in the “real” world. Thousands and thousands of dollars protecting their kids and thousands and thousands of hours making sure that they ...
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15 Things You Must Know About Teen Killers
It’s September and back to school time. Already there’s been a shooting in the Northeast by a teenager at a high school. It is really important to remember that these types ...
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The College Search
In conducting the college search, it is important to make sure a college list is well balanced with reach, 50/50 and likely colleges that fit the student’s profile academically and ...
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What Parents Can Learn From "The Most Deranged Sorority Girl Email You Will Ever Read” The President of Delta Gamma Sorority at the University of Maryland recently resigned after her “amazing” command of profanity combined with ... Read More >>
Parent/Child Media Agreement Common Sense Media has developed what they call the Family Media Agreement, a checklist that parents can use to establish guidelines and limits regarding their children’s use of media and technology. It can ... Read More >>
Watch out! RAT software offers a new level of creepy. Hackers can easily spy on your kids. Chances are your computer (and your kid’s computer) has a webcam. This great…unless there is a hacker watching ... Read More >>
Digital Discourse May Increase Your Anger: Civility In The Digital Age Is Good for You How many times have you experienced anger on the Internet? How many times do you feel the urge to post those ... Read More >>
High School Football Players + Bad Behavior Again? Not again. It sounds very similar to what recently went down in Ohio. There are two high school football players accused of sexual assault. Their friends are all ... Read More >>
By Tom Sawyer 17 South Florida Friendless, I stumble down the hall Downtrodden, despondent, eyes downcast Shuffling my feet to the next class A sea of students surrounds me Yet I feel all alone, remaining unknown. Funny isn’t it? School, a place ... Read More >>
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Sexting epidemic: Experts warn explicit photos are corrupting kids
A study conducted in the UK at Plymouth University offers parents some eye opening statics and quotes. The study shows ... Read More >> -
Drug Doggie vs. Monitoring Software: I pick Technology.
I just read a post on Today Moms about parents who hire drug-sniffing dogs to help uncover the truth about ... Read More >> -
88% Of Teens’ Sexual Pics Reposted By ‘Parasite Websites’
Almost all of Teen's Explicit Photos are Picked Up by Parasite Porn Sites: 88% Of Teens’ Sexual Pics Reposted By ... Read More >>
