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
Summer: Plenty of Time to Ruin One’s Image
Summer is just around the corner. If you're like me, you are busy downloading forms for camps and searching out activities and looking into ways to make sure that your ...
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Warning Signs Your Teen Is in an Abusive Relationship
Unfortunately, children are not immune from becoming involved in abusive relationships. The frightening statistics reveal that 1 out of every 3 teens is involved in some sort of abusive dating ...
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Underage Drinking. Still a Problem.
Check this out! A new survey of U.S. teenagers that shows most have used alcohol and drugs by the time they reach adulthood, and researchers say that could be ...
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4 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About Sexcasting
Technology brings with it advancements, innovations, and possibilities. For teenagers, it can also bring risks and dangers, as with the new trend of sexcasting. While you may have heard of ...
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Hey Parents! Use Technology To Fight Technology!
As the parent of a tween with a cell phone, you have given your child a bit of freedom as well as so much more responsibility. Even though you may have ...
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How a Cyberbully Can Hurt Your Child … and What To Do About It
As adults, we are faced with the challenges of keeping up with technology, and all of the unfortunate ways it can be used to harm our children. As a parent, ...
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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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5 Things You Must Learn To Help Protect Your Teen’s Online Reputation
Raising teenagers in an online, digitally interconnected world is a challenge, especially if you’re not very tech-savvy. But today’s parents have no choice. You must learn about the technologies your ...
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Facebook Announces Suicide Prevention Plans
Suicide prevention is making headway online. Social media is often similar to what is happening in real life. In fact, social media is real life to many people. In ...
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6 Gaming Sites You Should Worry About
Long gone are the days when gaming referred to Candy Land or Battleship played at the dining room table. Parents – say hello to gaming sites where avatars swear like ...
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New Cyberbullying Law
Have you heard about the proposed cyberbullying bill? It's a new law attempting to stop cyberbullying. In Arizona legislators are expected to amend a controversial bill that experts say could stifle free ...
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Social Networking – The Modern Playground
As we grew up, our time was spent interacting with our friends at the neighborhood playground or throughout the neighborhood. Generally, our parents knew where to find us, and knew ...
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Teens Go “Pharming.” Clearly We Aren’t Talking About Crops.
As a parent, you probably know that your teen or tween is almost constantly connected to technology and may not always be using this technology for good reasons. There certainly can be ...
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My Tween Just Got a Cellphone … Now What?
At some point, every parent will go through purchasing their child their first cell phone. If you haven’t yet experienced your child negotiating for a cell phone, it will happen ...
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Cyberbullying: What Parents Can Do To Protect Their Children
Cyberbullying is a threat that needs to be addressed proactively. With access to telecommunications media made even easier these days, kids can easily torment other kids using mobile phones, social ...
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Welcome to the Future!
WOW! The future has arrived! I can't wait to check these out. OK, maybe I can because I have a lot of other stuff going on but these sound cool. With ...
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Teen Making Bad Choices? Technology Can Make It Worse
Technology has changed how we live, how we find information, and how we connect with others. For parents of teens, this has introduced a whole new host of worries and ...
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‘Bully’ Documentary is a Must-See
Teens who are bullied by their peers for being "different" for some reason- or no reason- tell their stories in the new documentary 'Bully'. Sounds like this will be an ...
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Cyberbullying: How It Can Affect Your Child
Bullies and mean kids aren’t just torturing their victims face-to-face anymore. Technology has given them a new platform. From text messages to chatrooms to social media sites, cyberbullying can ...
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3 Ways Teens Use Technology to Fuel Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are a major health problem in the United States. More than eight million Americans suffer from an eating disorder, and 90 percent of these are teens and young women ...
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YouTube – Your Child’s Chance To Be a Star (not really)
I'm a star on YouTube! At least that what our children think. The site originally was developed as a way for friends to share videos they had taken and that, at ...
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DEADLY COMBO: Teens, Texting and Driving
Would you give your teenager a loaded weapon and then spin him around in circles before telling him to shoot? Of course not. But if you give your teenage driver ...
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Bad Combo: Teens + Flash Mobs + Violence + Technology
Flash mobs used to be synonymous with entertainment, humor, and artistic expression. The term “flash mob” was first coined in 2003 and it referred to peaceful and often humorous public ...
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How Technology Can Encourage Cutting
\With all the physical, emotional, social, and academic changes that take place during adolescent years, it’s easy for teens to feel overwhelmed and stressed out. While a majority of teens are ...
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