A new online resource from Australia aims to give parents a unique new tool to address the challenging task of discussing puberty with their children http://www.timesunion.com/business/press-releases/article/Talking-Puberty-New-Resource-From-Choicez-Media-3572931.php#ixzz1vcVnDiYW and the actual site: http://puberty.co/
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Texting encourages more honesty
Which can be good and bad,… according to new research: http://www.mobiledia.com/news/143348.html
Read More »Monitoring your kids’ cell phone use
Sprint announced Sprint Guardian, a comprehensive set of parental controls, including location tracking, alerts when your child texts an unknown number and when he’s downloaded a new app, all of the major carriers – AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon have all joined Sprint in offering more parental controls. http://www.wltx.com/news/tech/article/187869/378/Parents-Get-More-Options-to-Control-Kid-Phones Bitdefender Parental Control, open to public beta testing on June […]
Read More »Teens and Diabetes
Nearly one in four American adolescents may be on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes or could already be diabetic, representing a sharp increase in the disease’s prevalence among children ages 12 to 19 since a decade ago http://www.americanscientist.org/science/content1/15645 http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/diabetes-on-the-rise-among-teenagers/
Read More »No more monkeys….
A look at the consequences of jumping on the bed http://www.babysitters.net/blog/10-common-results-from-jumping-on-the-bed/
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