Google Puts Kids at Risk by Automatically Enrolling Gmail Accounts into Google Buzz

Top 10 Tips on Keeping Kids Safe With Technology This Summer

Summer is here and parents are looking for ways to keep their kids safe when they go online. Kids online usage increases over the summer and so do the risks. Please make sure you are talking to your kids about summer safety and be sure to include online safety and tips to stay safe.

Today’s Guest

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Teaching Kids About Their Online Reputation

One great thing about technology is that information is easily accessible. In this picture, we have the world which represents all the information we now have access to through the internet. When we have a question, we “Google” it to get the answer. All this information comes to our computers, laptops, cell phones

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Mom Finds a Way to Deal With Bullies When School Doesn't

What can a mom do when her son is being bullied at school and the school won’t help?

How can a mother protect her son when the bullying is so extreme that he attempts suicide not once, but twice?

I found out what one mom did when she was faced with this

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What Parents Need to Know About Facebook

As an Internet Safety Advocate, I speak locally to schools, PTA meetings, youth groups and clubs, churches, etc. Every time I speak to parents and tweens/teens, I discuss Facebook and how it can impact someone’s online reputation.

Let me start off by saying that I love Facebook! I enjoy connecting with friends

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12 Tips To Keep Mom's Laptop Safe

One of the reasons I love social media is that I am able to connect with incredible people like Christopher Burgess. Last year when I began focusing on internet safety, I began following @BurgessCT on Twitter. He always shared helpful information including internet safety and security tips. I always looked forward to his

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Predator Uses Online Gaming to Lure Kids, Find out How & Why

Most parents I know think of an online predator as someone who is targeting kids in a sexual manner. But many social media predators target kids to gain personal information for credit card theft, or to steal personal identities.

My guest post today is from Dr. Keith Kanner, a licensed and certified

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What Really Happens After You Hit Send?

When kids send private photos, they expect them to stay private. But once you hit “send” you lose control.

How can we teach our kids the consequences of sending a picture, video, text, comment or post online?

We need to talk to our kids and discuss the current news stories. Just

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Are You Using a Family Internet Safety Contract?

A Family Internet Safety Contract is a great tool to teach kids how to stay safe online and discuss family rules and expectations.

If you hand the contract to your child and ask them to read and sign without reading through it together, you are missing out on the most important part of the

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My Response to Article Titled, Mother of Bully Says

Young depressed reading bad message on phone

Several months ago, 15 year old Phoebe Prince committed suicide after months of constant bullying at school and online. Prince, new to South Hadley H.S., became the target of the “mean girls” after briefly dating a popular senior football player.

The “mean girls” began bullying her at school, calling her names in

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