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Yet again, Sexting, which is illegal for underage children, is in the news highlighting the need to Know what Your Kids are Texting. read more…

Teenagers today use their cell phones more than any other age group; however, this is not necessarily an indication that your child is selling drugs. If you notice a change in the cell phone behavior however, such as an increase in very short calls, or a large increase in text messages from seemingly random numbers, […]

Texting while driving is an incredibly dangerous problem: A texting driver is 23 times more likely to get into a crash than a non-texting driver (2009, VTTI, Texting Raises Crash Risk 23 Times, Study Finds) 49% of drivers with cell phones under the age of 35 send or read text messages while driving (2011, Harris Poll, Most […]

The Mayo Clinic recently put out a “Tween and Teen Health” note entitled Teen texting: Help your teen avoid the risks. In our opinion, their message is right on – if you are concerned about teen texting, there are two basic things you should do: Monitor your teen’s texting habits Set — and enforce — appropriate limits […]

Nobody embarks on parenthood thinking “my kid is going to become an addict.” To the contrary, when my husband and I decided to have children, we thought we’d be dealing them a pretty decent gene pool since addiction had not been an issue in our immediate families of origin. We also assumed that as good […]

Should you monitor your child’s online activities? This question never fails to get a strong response. When we published some statistics on teen texting a while back, there was a very animated discussion about this. On one side of the discussion are the people who feel that: Parents should trust their children Monitoring is the […]

As you are reading this document, there are literally hundreds, if not thousands, of online communication dialogues taking place between your children and their “network” of friends and acquaintances. The frequency and volume of this communication is growing every day and parents have little control or even influence over it. The widespread use of cell […]