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Anyone who doubts the Internet’s addictive potential need only look at this sad case of child neglect. A husband and wife have been caught and arrested after their 3-month-old daughter died of severe dehydration and malnutrition. The couple had been on the run for five months. Police say the couples’ addiction to online gaming led them to spend all their time at an Internet café, only coming home once a day to feed their child. Continue reading »
Is there anything you can’t do on the Internet? You can order a pizza, pick your hairstyle, and even find the love of your life. And these days, it turns out, you can even be a hero without having to leave the comfort of your parents’ basement. In fact, a 17-year-old girl from England managed to foil the rape of a five-year-old North Carolina girl, thanks to the internet.
Surfing around YouTube with your kids in the room just got easier. The video sharing site has added a “safety mode” for parents who want to keep “objectionable content” off their screens.
With the automatic start to a video when you click on the URL, things can get hairy even for parents who don’t let their kids surf alone. Continue reading »
When Carly Hornbuckle’s 4-year-old daughter began waking up listless and sick to her stomach last year, the 25-year-old mother immediately made an appointment to see a doctor. But when that doctor dismissed little Bella’s symptoms as nothing more than a bad case of sibling rivalry, Hornbuckle took matters into her own hands. Continue reading »
The Chinese government has had enough of Internet pornography–and they’re not going to take it more.
That’s why their bringing out the big guns: mothers. Continue reading »
It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your 8 to 18-year-old is? According to a new study, you’ll probably find him or her online.
In 2005, the Kaiser Family Foundation concluded that kids’ use of entertainment media had hit a ceiling. There just weren’t any more hours in a day for kids to be using technology, they said. So researchers were shocked to discover in a recent survey that media usage among kids has actually increased by an hour a day in the last five years.
The New York Times already did the math for us. If you’re kids aren’t in school or sleeping, chances are they’re using some sort of entertainment media.
If you’re worried about the hours your teen spends updating their Facebook page and checking out their friends’ statuses, you may be fretting over nothing. Two studies, one at the University of New Hampshire and the other at Northwestern University, failed to show a “robust negative relationship between grade point averages and use of Facebook.” But wait, there’s more! An Ohio State University study from last year found the opposite, with students who used Facebook several times a day had a GPA a full letter grade lower than students who did use the service. So which study is correct?
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