Kids and Cellphones

What you need to know about setting Parental Controls on the iPhone

April 5, 2010

The Apple iPhone has burst onto the technology scene with a popularity and hype rarely seen for technology or gadgets. Users like the ease of the applications and the many ways that iTunes can be used. However, iPhones have a wide ranging scope of use. This has become a problem for parents who want control [...]

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OMG! Tlk2UL8R: The Future of Texting and Your Teen

February 8, 2010

Many adults are stunned when they get a look at the language of “textspeak”. This is the new language full of codes that teens are using to communicate with each other through their phones. The language of text messaging is leading to new and highly creative ways of writing English. Teens are showing incredible innovation [...]

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What Kids Are Learning While Texting With Their Friends

February 5, 2010

There is no denying that texting has fast become the number one way teens (and some pre-teens) are communicating. This ultra fast and some would say slick way of interacting has left this generation of kids facing some new challenges as they take on the world of cyber space. While some parents despair of ever [...]

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Should Sexting Be Considered Child Pornography?

June 12, 2009

Sexting” is the practice of sending a sexually explicit text or taking a sexually revealing picture of yourself, (typically from a cell phone), and sending it to someone. Putting the legal consequences aside, it is just a dumb thing to do, especially for younger age groups in which it has become something of a trend. [...]

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Child Pornography and Sexting: An Opinion

June 12, 2009

Sadly we are all too familiar with the horrors of child pornography. Case after case seems to attract our attention as adult predators take advantage of the weakest among us. When viewing these cases it makes everyone glad that there are laws to help deal with this sort of crime but it leads to the [...]

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What Every Parent Needs to Know About Sexting

June 10, 2009

Perhaps when you were in school, kids passed flirtatious or even racy notes to people they liked. Sometimes those notes got dropped on the floor or confiscated by the teacher and, before long, everyone was gossiping between classes about what was supposed to be a private message. Now add a cell phone with a camera [...]

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