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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 »
One of the best things about Facebook and other social networking sites is coming across people you forgot you even knew. High school and college buddies who may have slipped out of your life are suddenly there again. But while we may enjoy reconnecting with long lost friends on Facebook, many of us use social networking sites to keep up with people we see on a regular basis. People close very to us. People like our kids. Continue reading »
It’s just a dumb game, right? If you use Facebook, you’ve no doubt seen posts from friends seemingly addicted to FarmVille about the little lost lamb they found on the farm or the flower shop they just bought in the virtual world. If you’re involved in the game, these may make for exciting news but if you’re not, you probably just ignore them. Well, it turns out, you might want to start paying a little more attention, especially when the posts come from your own kids.
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.
When did you stop playing with dolls? Back in the day, my friends and I played with our Barbie dolls well into what is now called the tween years. When we were five, we had Barbie playing mom and schoolteacher in our make-believe worlds. But was we got older, Barbie got younger and started going to parties and on romantic dates with Ken. Barbie was versatile that way and therefore the prefect plaything for a maturing girl.
But these days, with so many other forms of entertainment vying for the attention of young girls, Barbie and other dolls are getting left behind at a much earlier age. Continue reading »
The catty girls in the cafeteria may not change much at all when they grow up–sometimes they evolve into those malicious moms that post outrageous comments about parenting online. Yeah, we all know them. Those nasty, know-it-all virtual finger-pointers whose judgmental slurs are giddily delivered as a verbal bitch slap to their intended target–other moms.
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.
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