Nov 19 2009
Canadian couple gets so tired of their children’s excessive homework that they actually do something about it – they sue the school.
Do you think there is anything wrong with doing homework?
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Nov 19 2009
Canadian couple gets so tired of their children’s excessive homework that they actually do something about it – they sue the school.
Do you think there is anything wrong with doing homework?
Sep 24 2009
The parents of a British 15-year-old schoolgirl blame "huge pressure" and "modern complexities" of social networking Web sites for the suicide of their teen daughter, The London Times Online reported Monday.
Holly Grogan jumped 30 feet to her death from a bridge last week and was hit by traffic after abusive messages were relentlessly [...]
Sep 14 2009
I love the idea! University of Utah researchers have developed an automobile ignition key that prevents teenagers from talking on cell phones or sending text messages while driving.
Is there anything – on today’s roadways that make you cringe more than watching a teenager drive down the road with a phone at their ear or [...]
Sep 08 2009
Frankly, I have to say if a parent doesn’t believe in tough penalties or punishment they should keep their child O-U-T of public schools.
A few weeks ago a little twit in my son’s class spit in his teachers coffee cup. The teacher didn’t find out until TWO days later! The kid was suspended for [...]
Sep 06 2009
My kids and I have! And it happened today.
Around my neck of the woods, young people don’t see the rebel flag as a symbol of anything other than “good old boys” and “the redneck yacht club” sort of groups – mine included.
While I’ve tried to impress upon them some of what the symbol means to [...]
Sep 04 2009
This is some scary stuff people!
“Sexting” is a term for a kind of text messaging that often involves sending erotic, nude pictures. Experts say “sexting” is becoming a common practice for many teenagers, who often think it’s no big deal to send racy photos via email or text.
For many teens, they see it [...]
Sep 02 2009
Tipnut.com has shares 12 Rules of Etiquette for Kids as they were in the 1950’s. I plan on running these suggested rules by my kids to capture their response – but something tells me I’ll hear a little “what the…?” and “your kidding me!” Especially when it comes to “Always rise to a standing position [...]
Aug 18 2009
The Associated Press recently reported on an Eighteen-year-old Wisconsin high school student Anthony Stancl who created a Facebook profile to pretend to be a teenage girl. Under this guise, over the course of nearly two years, he used the fictitious account to convince more than 30 of his male classmates to send in nude photos [...]
Aug 17 2009
Each of my teen boys have a MySpace account, they’ve just begun to explore Facebook and other social networking options – but for now their focus is just MySpace and a heaping hill of drama.
I never imagined how much drama a handful a teens could build with something as simple as a MySpace account. I [...]
Jul 28 2009
As if social-networking snafus don’t give parents enough to worry about, here’s a new concern – sexting, in which tweens and teens use mobile devices to snap sexually charged photos of themselves and send the pictures to friends. A recent study found one in five teens had sent or posted a sexually explicit photo of [...]