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10 Tips to Teach Your Kids About Privacy

March 19, 2010

When my son was about half his age, he started to get online to play a few, fairly harmless online multi-player games. No big deal — except that these games included a “chat” feature where you can communicate with other players, which I hadn’t noticed. I learned about the chat feature only after my son [...]

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Why Do Some Adults Have a Harder Time Unplugging Than Kids?

May 17, 2009
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Who do you think has anxiety the most from kids having to unplug from their devices when they go to summer camp for two weeks? The kids? Or Mom or Dad? In some cases, both. Having gone through an Internet connectivity outage that went on for over twenty four hours, I can understand what it [...]

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Online Predator Risks Put Into Perspective

May 7, 2009

Photo by Wesley Fryer You’re watching the evening news and the anchor says, “Coming up next! Something that will scare the crap out of you!” After a sequence of commercials, back to the news program where they report on a murder, or an abduction, or just something that shocks and frightens you. They peddle fear [...]

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Cell Phone – Brain Tumor Link, in Kids

March 25, 2009

Photo by Jakub Hlavaty Another great reason why kids should spend more time face-to-face. Cellphone use in kids linked to brain tumours “What stands out is the consistency of the association of exposure and disease. The evidence, as I see it, is sufficiently strong that there needs to be public warnings, there needs to be [...]

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Kids That Need to Limit their Parent’s Computer Time

March 4, 2009

How’s that for a twist in the title? It’s usually the parents who desire the ability to limit their kids access to Facebook, MySpace, online games, and YouTube. In an interesting comment on a website, a homeschooler said that her oldest child was not yet old enough for Facebook, and she limits her kids to [...]

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The Only Thing We Have to Fear…

February 24, 2009

“Your kids may be in danger!” says the news media. They know fear gets people’s attention; attention let’s them sell advertising. The truth may just be less attention-grabbing. Is the Internet a dangerous place where evil lurks and kids are at risk? Do we need to worry? No. Probably not. Recent findings from a task [...]

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Free E-Book on Free Range Kids

February 16, 2009

Though it’s a couple of years old, I came across a free e-book about free range kids: No Fear: Growing up in a risk averse society, by Tim Gill. This is not to be confused with the Free Range Kids blog by Lenore Skenazy, or her upcoming book called Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the [...]

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14,528 Text Messages in One Month

January 12, 2009

This Kid’s a Text Maniac! 14,528 text messages in one month. The online AT&T statement ran 440 pages. “First, I laughed. I thought, ‘That’s insane, that’s impossible,’ ” the 45-year-old dad said. “And I immediately whipped out the calculator to see if it was humanly possible.” He found it was – barely. It works out [...]

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Roots and Wings: “But the world is a different place now.”

January 2, 2009

How old do your kids need to be before you’ll let them travel on public transportation? My daughter just flew from JFK to Houston with a friend the same age as her: fourteen. A direct flight, with adults dropping them off at the gate and picking them up at the other end. All things considered [...]

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Today in the Stupid Headline Department

December 29, 2008

Minister: Wii the best boost for children’s intelligence. Really? OK, not really. But that’s what the headline says. In the lead sentence in the article, it’s clarified a bit: “CHILDREN who play computer games will do better at school than those who just sit and watch television.“. In other news, caterpillars are more nutritious and [...]

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