Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

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Cotton Candy Friends: How Social Networks, IMs, Texting and the Internet are changing teen’s friendships.

Help Tackling Cyberbullying This is Part II of some of the new trends in Cyberbullying and what parents can do about it.

Explaining the Net-Generation in Parent-Friendly Terms

This is a series I will be continuously posting about for parents and teachers. Parents need to always stay two steps ahead of their kids online. In many of these poss I explain kid lingo, news, terms and how to keep your kids safe in easy to understand terms–but from a younger perspective (I really know what is going on because I do it!)

Best Free Websites for Parents

For Parents: What is YouTube

13 Holy CyberCitizenship Laws

Parents give the sex talk, the drug talk, but how about the cybercitizenship talk? Here are 13 laws that every person should try to follow when participating in the online world.

7 Ways Teachers Can Use Online Tools to Keep Students Interested

Net-generation students have am extremely short attention span and love using new tools in their school work. Teachers can utilize many free resources to help make their subjects more interesting.

6 Things You Need to Know About Cyberbullying

Parents need to get informed on how the landscape of the social scene in schools has changed– significantly altering cyberbullying, cliques and peer pressure.

What is RSS and Why Parents Need It

Ever wonder what it means when I as you to RSS to my feed? Here, I explain in simple terms and explain why it could be an option for busy or out-of-touch parents

Best Free Online Resources for Students
Kids and students now are using the Internet for everything. Here are some of my favorite sites, with great tips and tricks from how to take notes, cramming for tests and organizing your back pack. Take a look and forward it on to some of you kids or teacher friends!

For Parents: What is Social Networking, Facebook and MySpace?

This is a must read if your kids are starting to dabble in these online communities. It is part of my series on Growing Up Online.

-A Parent’s Perspective to Social Networking [Guest Post]

How has another parent dealt with the social networking phenomenon. I loved how Katy, my guest blogger handled the situation with her child.

-How to Handle Social Networking With Your Kids

Ok, so you have now been informed about what Social Networking is…what do you do about it! Here I give a bunch of steps to approaching the Facebook and MySpace situation

Books I Love About Teens Online

Me, MySpace and I by Dr Larry Rosen

MySpace Unraveled: A Parent’s Guide to Teen Social Networking by Larry Magid and Anne Collier

(I have to plug my own right?) You’re Grounded! by Vanessa Van Petten