Keeping your kids safe online

A new  service claims to help parents strike a balance of keeping their kids safe online while respecting their kids’ privacy : Bark helps parents keep kids safe online without invading their privacy https://www.bark.us   And Teen Safe is a service that allows parents to see what their kids are texting, googling and doing on apps, co-founder […]

A new paper by Murdoch University suggests that teens experience similar feelings of happiness and lower levels of sadness, jealousy and worry when with friends on social media and other online forums as they do when they are actually in the company of their friends than with their families http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-03/online-friends-equally-potent-teenagers-murdoch-university-study/7380810  

A new survey from Common Sense Media found that: Half of teens and over one-quarter of parents feel they’re addicted to their mobile devices. At least a few times a week, more than three-quarters of parents and 41 percent of teens feel the other gets distracted by a device and doesn’t pay attention when they’re […]

According to a new study out of Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, teenagers who spend hours on the Internet may be at risk of gaining unhealthy weight and having high blood pressure http://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/heavy-internet-use-may-put-teenagers-at-high-blood-pressure-risk-749366 http://www.henryford.com/body.cfm?id=46335&action=detail&ref=2337  

An interesting survey of teens’ own  views of how modern devices and the internet effect dating: http://www.vox.com/2015/10/3/9440953/teenager-cell-phone-study