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Beyond Bullying: Dealing with Trolling and Social Cruelty
Safer Internet Day (SID) is organized by Insafe in February of each year to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially among children and young people...
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Safer Internet Day and Digital Parenting
If your child is awake, chances are they’re probably online. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, children 8 to 18 spend more than 7.5 hours a day using a smartphone, computer, television or...
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PEW Study: Parents Are Watching Teens Social Media Behavior (Teens Can See...
Everyone can see each other – digitally speaking. In addition to the latest PEW Research on Teens, Social Media and Technology 2015, that shared statistics that our teens are connected to social media...
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Digital Gifts That Can Be Priceless
Gift of a digital lesson. We have special days coming soon, Mother’s Day and shortly after that is Father’s Day. I remember being young, and of course as a child money is never something of abundance,...
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Social Media Site Launches for ‘All Ages’
I write frequently about respecting age restrictions, especially as it pertains to social media sites. Popular sites such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter all clearly state you have to be 13...
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Cyber Crimes: Protect Your Children from Online Dangers
Online social networks are part of daily life, especially for kids and teens. Unfortunately, these networks make for easy bullying. How do you protect your kids from cyber threats? Cyberbullying...
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Family Meals, Offline Parenting and Social Media Conversations: New Study
One of my constant mantra’s is offline parenting will help your kids, and especially teen’s, make better online choices. The fact is when your children are in their digital world’s you are not there...
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Internet Safety Month: What’s Your Priority?
June is Internet Safety Month. It’s great that we designate a month for Internet Safety Awareness, as we do for Bullying and Cyberbullying Awareness in October, but this doesn’t mean that we ignore it...
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New Study: Realities of Cyber Parenting
New Intel Security recently released their latest study, “Realities of Cyber Parenting: What Pre-teens and Teens are Up To Online” which gave us some insights of what parents are most concerned about...
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CyberParenting: Knowing What Teens Are Doing Online
Earlier this month Intel Security released their latest study, The Reality of CyberParenting: What Pre-Teens and Teens Are Up To Online. The month of June is Internet Safety Month. It’s a month that...
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Lessons In Digital Parenting and The Role Social Media Plays
Mom on social media. It’s not only youth that love the Internet, earlier this year PEW Research shared that 52% of adults online are engaged in social media with Facebook as the most popular. We have...
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Fake Social Media Accounts: The Findings and The Fixes
Guest post by Janita Docherty How do you view your social media world? The first thing that springs to mind is communication. Communication with your friends, family and other users in groups and...
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Internet Predators Don’t Discriminate: Is Your Teen Safe?
If you haven’t seen the social media experiment video that has gone viral by now, it’s about time you view it and share it. (Kudos to Colby Persin for addressing an important topic.) Let’s take some...
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Generation Facebook: LIKE to Dislike
We officially live in a generation Facebook society. No matter what age you are, from 13 (and I dare say younger) to 80 (and even older) everyone loves to LIKE Facebook. You may be watching the news on...
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Social Media Safety Habits Teens Ignore
As social networking is growing not only with our youth, but with our adults too, it’s time we start talking about some bad habits that started early in the social media years and try to undo these...
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Our Digital and Media Influences for Youth
Who is your teen’s digital influences? Common Sense Media recently released their latest report regarding today’s media consumption and our youth. Tweens and teens spend about 9-hours a day on media....
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Talking, Texting and Sexting: Cell Phone Basics
Everyone loves their cell phones and most can’t live without them. PEW Fact Tank shares that 64% of adults in 2015 own a smartphone, but when it comes to cell phones in general, it jumps to 90% of...
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Surveys: Teens, Tech, Parenting and Cyberbullying
This month several surveys and reports have been released on tech, parenting, teens and cyberbullying. Starting with the simple one that came from iKeepSafe, which was funded by AT&T, it focused on...
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10 Great Ways to Prevent Identity Theft
So far in 2015, there have been countless cases of mass identity theft. In the United States alone, millions have been victimized in data breaches and the year is not over yet. While improvements to...
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Social Media: What Parents Need To Know About Their Teen’s Online Activity
As we enter the holiday season, kids, tween and teens will be spending more time online. Recent studies from Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) that 81% of parents believe they know what their kids...
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