There’s a lot of talk going around that Social Media is a fad. People and businesses are claiming that the new phenomenon is nothing less than a passing phase that will be overtaken in the next few years. It’s both true and not true. The thing is that Social Media is a new tool in [...]
Our teenagers text all the time. When they’re eating breakfast, they’re texting. When they’re walking down the hallways at school, they’re texting. And when they should be interacting with friends and family outside their bedroom, they’re texting them instead. It all started when teenagers started receiving cell phones from their parents in order for parents [...]
Egypt’s Revolution and America’s Youth
This is the second installment of our Teen Influencer Series on Parent eSource.com When young people today think of revolution, history lessons and men from far-away lands usually come to mind. Januray 25th, 2011, changed all of that. Most teens were unaware of the peaceful revolution brewing within the Egyptian people until the protests moved [...]
Remember the good old days before your kids became tweens and teens and actually used to talk to you about their lives without an interrogation? They’re constantly texting, tweeting on Twitter, making new video blogs for YouTube and posting on Facebook, but somehow when you ask them how school was the answer is always “Fine.” [...]
Teens who are excessive users of texting and social networking sites are much more likely to engage in unhealthy behaviors like smoking and binge drinking than their peers who are not excessive users, a new study says. Researchers at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine surveyed 4,257 high school students from an urban county in [...]
The world was stunned when young people abbreviated countless languages in the world in order to fit an entire thought into a short 160 character TXT message when cell phones first came out. Years later, and the language is getting re-invented and updated with every single day. So much so, that many young people and [...]
The other day, I had the privilege of interviewing Joh Fisher, Founder of Speed Bump, a phone application that is a teen driving monitor which allows parents to set their own speed limits “on local, secondary and primary roads”. The application helps, “keep your teen safe when driving or when out with friends”. Here’s the [...]
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