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As a blogger, I’ve posted on some pretty touchy topics over the past couple of years. But no matter how provocative the subject, there’s been surprisingly little drama and comment controversy.
There is one notable exception: daycare.
Is this the best way to get ahead in life?
I consider myself a pretty technologically inclined person.
I mean, I’ve never owned an iPhone and I don’t have an iPad, but I know my way around HTML coding and I do have a smart phone. I’ve been tweeting for a few years now and who isn’t on Facebook?
But there’s something about the internet, perhaps the Wild West lay of the web land, that has me wanting to keep my daughter away from it for as long as is humanly possible.
Not so for one dad. As Katherine Rosman reports for The Wall Street Journal, the way one teen rebels against her parents is by refusing to tweet. Continue reading »
Teenagers aren’t generally known for their well thought-out and reasoned decisions. They often do dumb things with little or no regard for the consequences of their actions. And they get a biological pass for their idiocy because the prefrontal cortex in their brains aren’t fully developed.
But while we may expect teens to take risks because they have immature decision-making abilities, the Internet has given them a whole new outlet for their stupidity. YouTube, Facebook and other social sharing sites have given thrill-seeking teens a much larger arena in which to display their poor judgment. And that, say some, is giving rise to behavior that is riskier than ever. Continue reading »
An CNN article about a new social networking site for kids, Togetherville, starts like this:
One of the challenges for the newest generation is how to gain fluency in online networking without being able to draw on large, diverse social networks of their own.
Really? I though the challenges of the newest generation included things like war, national debt, and global warming. Fluency in online networking? Not so worried about that.
But someone is, and so Togetherville was born. I’ll give them this — it sounds so much age-appropriate than letting kids have their own Facebook accounts.
As part of their efforts to make surfing the web safer for children, an Internet provider in the U.K. has partnered with the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) to age-rate websites. As a result, everybody’s favorite search engine has been deemed unsuitable for kids under the age of 12. Continue reading »
In today’s post-Dooce world, it seems like everything our kids do is fodder for online entertainment. But even if they’re heartbreakingly cute, kids still deserve a little privacy. Take this poor kiddo, upset that her family’s upcoming move to Japan would separate her from Stephen, 15-year-old love of her life.
If you use Facebook, the popular social networking site, you’ve undoubtedly seen differences of opinion posted on the site and in comments made about what people have posted, especially, I’m sure, after the recent passage of the healthcare reform bill. Hopefully, however, those discussions remained civil and polite exchanges of information and points of view. That’s not always the case, sadly, and sometimes posts and comments can turn ugly, even to the point of becoming slanderous. And sometimes those arguments occur between family members, such as in the case of a mother and son in Tennessee.
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