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Teen Technology - Information
Extensive link to articles and facts related to teen use of today's technology, Internet, Television, Cell Phone use, etc.
Facts / Resources
Media Impact: Link to MediaFamily.org, with tips to help parents
Emerging Technology: Link to pdf detailing the benefits and risks associated with emerging technologies.
Net Family News: Help your teen to use the internet safely.
A Parent's Guide to Internet Safety: A link to the FBI's guidelines and suggestions.
Teen Safety on the Information Highway: www.cybertipline.com includes tear off card with rules to place near your computer.
Articles
Cincinnati doctors try text-messaging program to get teens to take their medicines (Cleveland PD, June 24, 2008) Dr. Maria Britto, an asthma specialist at Cincinnati Children's, noticed that even when she's talking to adolescent patients perched on the exam table, they keep texting on their cell phones. "You have to get in their face a little," she says with a laugh. But it sparked the idea for a study to see if a daily medication reminder via text message would improve kids' asthma control - preventing full-blown attacks, improving school attendance and decreasing doctor and emergency-room visits. Britto noted that kids as young as 12 carry the phones into her clinic, poor and middle class alike. <Read More>
Bedrooms Have Become Multi-Media Centers/Kids Say Parents Don’t Set or Enforce Rules on Media Use: Link to report from Kaiser Family Foundation
Kids and Teens on the Internet: What Parents Should Know (Family Education) Since recent studies suggest that children using the Internet learn at accelerated rates, the question is not how to keep kids offline but rather how to let kids use online technology safely. <Read More>
Study rejects Internet sex predator stereotype (Dateline, Feb. 18, 2008)The typical online sexual predator is not someone posing as a teen to lure unsuspecting victims into face-to-face meetings that result in violent rapes, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Rather, they tend to be adults who make their intentions of a sexual encounter quite plain to vulnerable young teens who often believe they are in love with the predator, they said.
Purchasing Drugs Online
