Teens
Study Shows Teens Love for Digital World
The Pew Internet Report released a study that took a close look into the world of teenagers and how they interact with the online world. This report shows that over half of online teens have created content for the Web, and that downloading music for free is easy and unavoidable. Now, I’ve said here many [...]
Does Your Child Blog?
According to BlogPulse, as of this writing there have been 46,988 new blogs launched in the past 24 hours. That’s a lot of bloggin’! What’s a blog? It’s a simple, yet effective way to communicate on the Web. It’s basically the same thing as a Web site, but the difference is what tools are used [...]
Chat Rooms: Where Cybersex Begins
Anything can be used for good or evil. Chat rooms, for example, offer you real-time conversations that can lead to answering your questions about something or sharing common interests with other individuals around the world. Unfortunatley, and unbeknownst to your child, that someone’s interest could be your son or daughter. Don’t get me wrong. I [...]
Your Teen’s Identity May Be At Risk
I’ve talked about protecting your identity from being stolen. Now I’d like to focus your attention on your teen’s identity. After all, they’re unique in that if they have credit records at all, you’ll most likely find a clean report. And besides, what teen do you know who checks their credit reports? To the criminal, [...]
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Child
I haven’t seen a video that demonstrates so well the online risks our children face today. The North Carolina Department of Justice has done just that by putting together a very informative video that depicts some common scenarios of how sexual predators and teens interact. One of the troubling things this video brings to light [...]
Protecting Teens Online Is On The Rise
A new survey from the Pew Internet Project shows 54% of parents with teenagers use Internet filters. That’s a 65% increase from the year 2000. But despite the increase in protection, parents and teens both still believe that teens try to do things they shouldn’t online. The survey included 1,100 youths (ages 12 to 17) [...]
“So What Did You Do Today?”
Parents: you ask your child this question, right? Kids: when your parents ask, you include where you’ve been online, right? No? Maybe? It’s important for parents to know where their child has been. This sounds logical, but how many of us really make an effort to know? We may tend to get lazy and figure [...]