About one in five teens in Western New York have witnessing cyberbullying and more than half of area teens have witnessed it being done to others, according to survey results released last week. The results, issued by the Siena College Research Institute, AT&T and the Tyler Clementi Foundation – named for the New Jersey college student […]
A major effort is underway to go after cyber predators accused of ‘sextortion’ involving minors…
(CNN) The number of children and teens in the United States who visited emergency rooms for suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts doubled between 2007 and 2015, according to a new analysis. Researchers used publicly available data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, administered by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention every year.
The Kids Internet Design and Safety Act would extend protections and create rules to cover all media platforms.
Concerns over child Internet safety is a common occurrence among parents. Cyberbullying, dangerous Internet “challenges,” adult content spliced into children’s videos, grooming, sexting, and self-harm are all serious concerns in a tech-reliant society.
Is texting people under the same roof the modern-day equivalent of an intercom? Or is it yet one more example of our obsession with technology?
Keeping up with technology is hard and the common joke a lot of parents make is that their young child “knows more about this stuff than I do”, but a local mental health counselor says it’s important that parents know about the devices their children are using.
When a Utah teenager took his life in 2017, his family was blindsided. Only later did they discover that the smart, religious athlete had been entrapped in an extortion case that apparently overwhelmed him. Police say such cases aren’t uncommon.
Nelson Mandela once said “No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated” and it is often said that education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. But education isn’t everything, what else do parents need to know to enable them to raise successful children?
