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Many people out there are scared of the internet. They’re scared of its power, but hey, if Superman hid his powers from the world, he wouldn’t be able to help anyone at all! The key is to contain and protect your youth from what they might come across online, and with some extra knowledge about [...]
When you’re off to your job during the day any other time of the year, you don’t worry as much about your teenager because you know they’re safely at school. But when summer hits and they’re out on the prowl for the dog days of summer, you may find yourself scrambling to find some way [...]
This part two in a two part series on Internet Predators, courtesy of Ken Shallcross from www.pcpandora.com. Part One is located here. For three years I have maintained a weekly series on my blog (www.blog.pcpandora.com) called Wacky Internet Predator Wednesdays. The title says it all. Every week I round up the stories that report on [...]
This is part one in a two part series, provided courtesy of Ken Shallcross from PC Pandora. As we make way into this second decade of the 21st century, parents need to wake up to the realization that the Internet is a main component of every day life, especially for our kids. But just because [...]
As parents, we need to understand the emerging technologies and trends so that we can teach our children to use them responsibly. With new social networks popping up all the time, it is often hard to stay on top of the newest sites. Today, the newest kid on the block is Foursquare and for parents, [...]
Space monkey. California choke. Cloud nine. Purple Hazing. Scarf Game. Airplaning. These are all common names used for one game in particular that has drawn a lot of negative attention: the “Choking Game.” This game has received an insane amount of media recognition recently because of the increase in deaths and hospitalizations from this particular [...]
You hear more and more stories on the news about teenagers using everyday household items to get high. The statistics are staggering, and even pharmacy and department stores now need to put common cold and flu medications behind the counter to keep teenagers from purchasing them to use for inexpensive highs. There are a number [...]
As we approach our 100th blog post at Parent eSource, we thought we’d create collections of some of our best articles to date. Wether you’re a new reader or have been with us since the beginning, we hope you will enjoy and share the below list of our personal favorites. Are We Experiencing a Societal [...]
You may very well remember bullies from the playgrounds–they would use unwarranted verbal and/or physical attacks on other students. But these days, there’s a new kind of bullying–cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the “new bullying.” Since this generation of children are much more in-tuned with technology when it comes to communicating, it makes perfect sense that bullies [...]
Prom is a milestone event in every teenager’s life. It’s the last big party where everyone will be all together before parting ways for college, the military or wherever else life takes them. Both parents and teens want the night to be special, fun and above all, safe. However, teens don’t have the experience and [...]