Google Glasses Are Not Your Average Prescription: Why Parents Need to be Concerned
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About: Lisa Shaw
What do five kids ranging in age from kindergarten to high school, a Harvard MBA and years of protecting kids online get you? It gets you Lisa Shaw, COO of her very busy household, and the Senior Director of Online Child Safety and Protection at SpectorSoft, the number one leader in monitoring and protecting your kids online. She has been concerned about protecting her children online ever since her son started searching the Internet back in the day of AskJeeves. After receiving her Harvard MBA, she put her degree to work while at the same time dealing with issues surrounding unidentified slime, twin boys, pediatric cardiac surgeries, youth sports, babysitters, toilets clogged with Thomas the Train track pieces, and more. Over the years, she has been a full time stay-at-home mom, a part-time working mom and a full-time working mom. Lisa understands the importance of protecting kids at the intersection of their online and offline lives. As the Senior Director of Online Child Safety and Protection at SpectorSoft, she’s an expert on the technology and trends that you need to arm yourself with to be the best parent you can be in today’s digital world.
Articles by Lisa Shaw
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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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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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 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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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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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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#CutForBieber: Sure Your Tween Heard About It
My daughter came home from middle school yesterday and asked me, “Have you heard there are pictures of Justin Bieber smoking pot online and girls are cutting themselves and posting ...
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YouTube: Are Your Kids Safe?
The numbers tell a story. YouTube is a part of our kids’ lives and it is a way that they consume information and entertainment. Check it out: Over 800 million ...
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New Laws: Is it Really Up to the Government to Protect Your Kid Online?
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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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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Time for New Year’s Resolutions: Make This the Year that You Protect Your Kids Online
It’s that time of year again: the time for New Year’s Resolutions! The New Year represents the promise of a new beginning and is a great time for self-reflection, especially ...
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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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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 that boys and girls as young as 13 routinely swap ...
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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 whether or not their kids are doing drugs. Parents pay ...
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Protect Your Teen Driver from Texting and Driving for Free Starting Now!
Did you know that while 11% of fatal auto crashes involving drivers under 20 years are caused by distractions that include mobile phone usage, 77% of young adults are very ...
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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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How Technology Is Changing Teen Dating Violence
Look at your child and three of his or her friends. According to statistics, one out of every four tweens or teens in the United States has been harassed or ...
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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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The New Dynamics of Digital Dating
Do you remember your first date? Did the person call you after school, ask you after chemistry class, or even knock on your front door? Chances are the person did ...
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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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3 Technology Tools You Need To Warn Your Kids About: Not Your Parents’ Sex Education Class
The sex education of children has changed. No longer are there singular textbooks stored on the top of bookshelves, or awkward, once-a-year classroom lectures conducted by fidgeting teachers. Kids are ...
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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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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 Be Affected By Pornography
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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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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An Online Predator Is Targeting Your Child: Do You Know the Warning Signs?
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: Nonstop Social Networking
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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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 ‘Parasite Websites’ There is nothing new that kids are taking, sending, ...
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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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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 Crimes – Could Your Child Be the Criminal?
So much of the parenting information available today is geared towards parents keeping their children safe from being the victims of Internet crimes. However, a silent, dangerous phenomenon is occurring ...
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Identity Theft and Children: The Increased Dangers of Cyberspace
There is most likely nothing more precious to you than your children. The thought of someone else taking your child’s identity and using it, squandering it, and damaging it makes ...
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