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Pimps Use Social Media to Lure Girls...
A recent CNNMoney report cast a light on a disturbing connection between prostitution and social media. The article explains how pimps are using social media like Facebook and Twitter to ...
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What is Facebook Phishing?
As parents, you often hear things your kids say and are left to wonder what they are talking about. You may have heard about catfishing online and learned what it ...
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Generation Porn: Fame-seeking Teens and Risky New Trend...
What to Worry About Recently in Northern Virginia, police arrested three boys — two 16-year-olds and a 15-year-old, for their alleged attempts at becoming the Mitchell Brothers 2.0. Apparently, they are ...
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Swearing an Oath to Protect and Serve Who? Latenightcop171...
Here is why we don’t pass the buck when it comes to monitoring your children, because those that are here to protect and serve could possibly be the problem. This ...
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18 iPhone Rules for Kids
A thirteen year old boy never thought about iPhone rules when he begged his parents for his own phone. His Christmas present was what he wanted, but with a “catch”. ...
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New Laws: Is it Really Up to the Government to Protect Your ...
New Laws A focus on child safety is among the top state laws taking effect at the start of 2013. In many states, new laws take effect on Jan. 1, while ...
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Who The Heck are These Men Walking Around in the Dark With M...
It was on our first ever Cub Scout camping trip that I realized something was wrong. There were fifty or so dads, each with at least one if not two ...
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Is Your Child Being Over-stimulated?...
While the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children younger than two or three not be exposed to technology, the average age that kids start watching TV these days is ...
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Distracted Parenting
In this world filled with ironies, it appears that the smart phones are creating a new one. While Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and the other social media links are bringing ...
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3 Hidden Chat Dangers for Teens...
Maybe you’ve heard of some of the many dangerous chat sites for kids, where your tweens and teens are vulnerable to strangers entering their lives and their worlds. Chatter.myYearbook, Our ...
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A New Sex Ed Course for Kids: The Internet...
What are the implications of technology’s influence on sexual education of children? There are certain milestones that mark time for parents – first steps of their first child, holiday celebrations, first ...
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Cyber Porn Addictions … Your Teenager’s Brain Could ...
According to statistics, in just the United States of America, pornography generates more total revenue that the combined totals of professional football, baseball, and basketball. That number includes the vast ...
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An Online Predator Is Targeting Your Child: Do You Know the ...
You've probably heard the reports or seen the news shows. Online predators have unprecedented access to children on the Internet. The perpetrators who troll the Internet to prey on underage ...
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Only 1,031 “Friends.” The New Social Frontier of Teens:...
Only 1,031 “Friends.” The New Social Frontier of Teens: Nonstop Social Networking I can't imagine having 1,031 "friends" when I was a teen. Can the nonstop social networking be making teens ...
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Sexy Baby: A Documentary about Sexiness and the Cyber Age...
Sexy Baby is the first documentary film to show what it is like for young girls to grow up in today’s digital society. It confirms what we really already know ...
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The Perils of Posting
The Federal Trade Commission will be reviewing and revamping the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 in the next few weeks. The FTC has said that the current ...
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Coach or Bodyguard? Understanding the Role of Parents in Dat...
“I told my daughter that she could start dating when her age was not a number on the clock. Then I set all our clocks to military time.” ~ Concerned ...
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Hold The Phone
How has your family life changed since the mobile phone movement started? If you take a look back into the history of mobile phones you will find that the development of ...
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Stepfamily Dynamics: Blending Families...
Written by Mark Gregston If you’re from my generation you’ll remember the song that started … “Here’s a story / of a lovely lady / who was bringing up three very ...
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Comforting the Anxious Teen
Written By Mark Gregston “The good old days.” “The best years of our lives.” “Back when life was easy.” Sometimes we refer to our growing up years with more than a ...
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Look At Me! Dealing with Narcissistic Teens...
Written By: Mark Gregston We are all born narcissists. Newborn infants don’t care if their parents haven’t slept in 48 hours—they’re hungry now! In preschool, one of the first things children ...
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How Parents Can Deal with Twitter Abuse...
Written by P. Humbargar The problem of cyberbullying is once again making headlines—and this time it has made the global news, as Olympic athletes currently competing in Great Britain have become victims. Specifically, ...
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Back-to-School: What You Need To Remember About the Internet...
As your kids go back to school this year, you know they will be making new friends and forming new relationships. Already, one of my daughter’s friends invited her to a ...
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The “Dear Colleague” Letter: Public schools’ legal dut...
In my previous post, I described the legal uncertainty surrounding public school responsibility for bullying and cyber bullying behavior that occurs off campus, but which has the undeniable potential of ...
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Have Kids Entering Middle School? Things You Must Teach Them...
Middle school used to be the time when kids solidified their multiplication and division facts, worked on their report writing skills, and spent time after school playing in the backyard ...
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Peace Is Not For Sale
My kids are addicted to McDonalds. I’m not sure if it’s the empty chicken nugget boxes on the floor of the car, or the smell of old French fries lodged ...
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Protecting Your Child When They Game Online...
While I have investigated hundreds of cases in my 25 years of law enforcement, there is one thing about child predators that remains constant. Predators will go where the kids ...
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If Congressmen Anthony Weiner Sent Lewd Pictures, What Can W...
Remember one of our leaders of this fine country, Anthony Weiner? You know, the grown man (Congressman actually!) who took lewd pictures of himself and then emailed them to women ...
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DANGER: Facebook’s Facial Recognition Technology...
What Every Parent Needs to Know Facebook's facial recognition technology is something you need to learn about today. If your kids are among the 600 million Facebook members, there is a ...
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Top 3 Ways Technology Shakes Up the Rules of Dating...
It used to be that young men would call a family’s residence phone if he wanted to ask a girl on a date. Fast forward to today and teens are ...
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Me and You and Six Hundred of My Closest Friends...
Sure, Facebook is a phenomenon. There’s all the gazillions of people who use it – like all the time. And then there’s that movie about it and the newspapers always ...
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A Box You Want Your Kids To Uncheck on Facebook...
Over 70 percent of all teens (12 to 17) have at least one social networking profile – Facebook being the world’s largest social network. Although kids under 13 aren’t technically ...
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Parents: Wake Up with these 4 Simple Tech Tips...
Have you ever seen your child type KPC online or on her phone? If you have, and didn’t have a clue what it meant, that is the point. KPC, or ...
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Sexting: A Parents’ Guide with 6 Easy-to-Learn Points...
Gone are the days when a phone is just a phone. Now for teens across the entire world, cell phones offer unparalleled opportunities to stay in contact with everyone from ...
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Top 6 Things Every Parent Must Know About Sexting...
If you’re a parent it is something you can’t ignore, no matter how embarrassing or uncomfortable it might make you feel. Sexting – the new trend among teens and tweens ...
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But I’d Know, Right?
You know everything there is to know about your kid, right? You two are like best friends and can finish one another's sentences. If anything, and that means any-little-thing, happened ...
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Google Glasses: Not Your Average Prescription: Why Parents Need to be Concerned. If you haven't heard of Google Glass yet, it is only a matter of time. In a recent ZDNet article, this is a good ... Read More >>
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 >>
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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 >>
