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Guilty of Texting while Driving, Under the Influence of…
Guilty!! I text and drive and justifying myself by saying “I’m not under the influence”… Or am I? As I thought about it, the realization hit me that I really am under the influence…. Extreme? Think about it if I am going 75mph on I-95 and I am talking...
To Be Trolled Is To Not Even Know It … Artful Trolling
While double-checking the meaning of trolling, I found one of the most important aspects of “trolling” is that the person who is being trolled doesn’t even know it! Trolling is an artful deception of a person, and its sole purpose is cruelty. Facebook recently...
Kent State Student Arrested for Tweet
Police recently arrested and charged a 19-year-old Kent State University student who posted a message on Twitter saying he planned to “shoot up” the campus. He was charged with inducing panic, a felony, and aggravated menacing. Apparently, he posted the tweet on July...
Young Man Charged with Cyberbullying Convicted to Jail
I just read that former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi today was sentenced to 30 days in jail by a New Jersey judge for spying on his roommate during an intimate moment. Ravi’s freshman roommate Tyler Clementi committed suicide days later. The prosecution, which sought a...
Will Awareness Lead to Change?
I see a lot of attention being given to bullying and cyberbullying. You can hardly watch TV without seeing a message on shows targeted to kids like the Disney channel. That is great and I hope that this increase in awareness can lead to change. But bullying has...
Hope Is NOT a Strategy When It Comes to Social Media and Kids
With younger age limits, it’s expected Facebook also would roll out new functions to allow parents to connect to their children’s accounts, decide who they can friend, control what apps they use, and otherwise monitor their activity. Though these additional functions...
We Know Kids Need Boundaries. What about Digital Boundaries?
Do kids want their parents to create boundaries? What about digital boundaries? We were just debating that here at ParentingTodaysKids earlier in the week. Some of our younger staff felt “no way!” while others of us have the feeling that at the end of the...
Summer: Plenty of Time to Ruin One’s Image
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 kids have a great summer. Yes, I am a...