Tag Archive for social media
What Parents Need To Know About The...
Teens are using emoji and secret lingo to find illegal drugs. How parents can crack the code
Sharp Rise In Transgender Young People...
Social media has been a significant catalyst for teenagers questioning their gender identities today
Popular Kids In School More Likely To Be...
Popular means that everyone knows you, but they may not necessarily consider you a buddy
Apple ‘Tracker’ Used To Stalk Teen...
Apple ‘Tracker’ Following Teen Visiting Disney World
Mexican Cartels Recruiting USA Teens To...
Mexican Cartels Use Social Media to Recruit Young Americans, Border Patrol Veteran Says
Why American Teens Are So Sad
Young people have 24/7 access to sites that are constantly telling them they should be depressed about it
Protecting Children From Sextortion
Taking advantage of these tools is a key step in protecting our children. But the most important thing we can do for…
Trans Youth Here Is Where Things May...
Fueled by isolation and social media, some youth rush toward gender identity as answer to distress
Walt Mueller: Youth Ministry And The...
“Whoever you want to be, it’s yours to make on Instagram!”
Mom Pays Teen $1,800 To Stay Off Social...
“On the whole, I would say totally worth it,” he said. “I mean, I would do it again.”
UK: Smartphones Make Teenagers Lonelier...
because they isolate young people from their friends, study shows
The Dark Sexualization Side Of The...
‘Dangerous by design’ metaverse apps allow children to access immersive digital sex clubs
Study: Celebrity-obsessed People Are...
New study boldly claims there is a “direct association between celebrity worship and poorer performance on cognitive tests.”
The Benadryl Challenge Unfortunately Is...
Inside a dangerous TikTok trend that keeps sending kids to the hospital
Is My Kid Addicted To Technology?
When thinking about our kids and technology, it might be more helpful to think of it in terms of cost and benefits
Walt Mueller And Instagram…
Effective marketing promises remedies to our insecurities
Kids And Too Much Time On Electronic...
The American Academy of Pediatrics and Canadian Pediatric Society recommends no more than 1 to 2 hours of screen use per day
What Teen Girls Wish Parents Knew About...
Remember, Instagram is a corporation that puts its interests before its users
Drug Cartels Flooding US With Fentanyl...
“The United States is facing an unprecedented crisis of overdose deaths fueled by illegally manufactured fentanyl and methamphetamine.”
How Smartphones Stifle Childhood...
Smartphone seems more like a drug draining the creativity out of the next generation
WHERE WILL OUR KIDS FIND IDENTITY?
Teenagers are looking for answers: Am I worthwhile? What makes me worthwhile? How am I unique from others? Are those uniqueness’ good…
Course: Parenting In A Tech World
This course gives parents and caregivers strategies and insights to parent confidently in a technology-dependent world
Study: Teens Feeling Lonely At School
Data from kids in 37 nations links this to use of cell phones and the internet
Sharing Nudes Doubled Among Pre-Teens In...
Twice as many children between the ages of 9 and 12 reported sending nudes or other Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (SG-CSAM)…
Teens Mental Health During The Pandemic
Kids who exercised more and used technology less during the pandemic had better mental health outcomes.
Social Media Before 11…Problematic...
Using Instagram or Snapchat before age 11 was significantly related to more problematic digital behaviors compared to those who joined these platforms…
teen faces 10 years for TikTok-inspired...
An attack on a disabled teacher that was recorded during a suspected TikTok challenge earlier this month
Is TikTok Causing Severe Neurological...
Teenage girls across the globe have been showing up at doctors’ offices with tics—since the start of the pandemic
Toddler Broadcasts Mom In Shower Live On...
“I quickly realize that my phone is broadcasting LIVE on Instagram. In my hand. While I am in the shower.”
Book: Emily Ratajkowski How She Was...
Her parents fixated on her beauty and said ‘it seemed important to them both … that their daughter be perceived as beautiful’
TikTok Star Gabriel Salazar killed In...
Salazar, who had nearly 2 million followers on the platform, was loved for his lip-syncing and skits
Facebook Knows Instagram is Harmful to...
A bombshell report in the Wall Street Journal shows that Facebook, which owns Instagram, is well aware of the teen mental health…
Senators Looking Into Instagram’s...
5 senators are demanding answers from Facebook
‘They’re harming us. They’...
‘Social Dilemma’ star blasts Facebook for putting profits ahead of people: ‘This is catastrophic’
Book: American Marxism
By Mark R. Levin. The widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory
Zuckerberg Is Planting The First Church...
“Facebook is shaping the future of religious experience itself, as it has done for political and social life.”
Book: Parenting Generation Screen
By Jonathan McKee: Guiding Your Kids to Be Wise in a Digital World
TikTok Challenge Severely Burns Teen...
To recreate a popular video in which someone uses flammable liquid on a mirror to draw a shape and then lights it…
Teen Rocks TikTok….Moving Into...
“It has definitely been fun getting to have extra sets of grandparents. I plan on staying for quite a while!”
Social Media Use In 2021
These findings come from a nationally representative survey of 1,502 U.S. adults conducted via telephone Jan. 25-Feb.8, 2021
Pew: YouTube Dominates Social Media...
TikTok Now Rivals Snapchat, Twitter
Boy Brain-dead After TikTok ‘...
A popular social media trend that involves choking oneself until loss of consciousness
Addison Rae: Body Image, Identity And...
how we can take control of social media rather than giving it permission to take control of us?
What Is The Right Amount Of Screen Time...
Here are a few tips from GreatSchools.org to help manage your kids’s screen time
Love: Truths Your Kids Need To Know On...
Romance is in the air…“expectations” of how young people are supposed to behave in intimate settings
Social Media Damages Teenagers’...
Teenagers’ mental health is being damaged by heavy social media use, a report has found
Man (19) Raped Girl (13) He Met Online
Solicited her for sexual activity, and then traveled to meet and engage in sexual contact with the 13 year old victim
Target Backtracks, Puts Book About &...
Seducing Our Daughters’ the impact transgenderism is having on girls
Fleets: Tweets That Disappear After 24...
Like Snapchat snaps and Instagram and Facebook “stories,” Twitter is rolling out fleets—tweets that disappear after 24 hours
TikTok Is More Popular Than Instagram...
The latest study aggregates responses from 9,800 teens across the United States
Group Discussion Cash Baker: Taking A...
This discussion brings up LGBTQ issues, Cash in this TikTok video chose to call it a sin
US To Block Downloads Of TikTok By...
To combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data, while promoting our national values
Social Distancing Heightens Loneliness...
The single most important way to mitigate loneliness is for trusted adults to reach out and connect
Drawful 2 Free Giveaways
We want to help make it easier for people to experience these moments of connection and happiness during a dark period
American Teenagers Are Declaring ...
Danny a YouTube prankster. He is proud to have seen it catch on with young people who champion abstinence
Students Can Eliminate Stress By...
It doesn’t take much time for the positive benefits to kick in — we’re talking 10 minutes outside in a space with…
Green Bank W. Va. No Cell No Internet No...
“I’m happier because now I don’t have social media to give me high expectations of not only myself but everybody else around…
Kids Shattered By Their Social Media Use
I’m an integrative psychotherapist and I work with
Pope To Catholics: For Lent, Give Up...
a time to give up useless words, gossip, rumours, tittle-tattle and speak to God on a first name basis
Jump Trip-Skull-Breaker Challenge
Unassuming victims are taking into jumping up before their feet are pulled away meaning they land on their heads and spines
Why Higher Depression Rates In Teens
I want to talk about all the reasons why we might be seeing this rise
Handout: Ways To Reduce Teen Anxiety
Require our kids to shut down, shut off, and sleep in their beds without phones overnight
Talking To Kids About Tech Is Dreadful...
Survey of 1,000 parents revealed that 56% would rather talk to their children about sex and puberty than technology features, trends, and…
Study: Teens At Risk Of Being ‘...
Teens…kind of trying to gain power and status in more materialistic ways
Phoneless 11-Year-Old Lost In Manhattan...
I’m sticking to my principles on not getting smartphones for my tweens — even though my child got lost in NYC
Social Media Trends Your Tech Team Needs...
Among all social media trends, video dominates in terms of importance
Crime: Sending unsolicited nudes In...
California’s new bill would ban the sending of naked photos and lawbreakers may be fined up to $500
App Lets Strangers Find Your, Info With...
works by comparing a photo to a database of 3 billion pictures off Facebook, Venmo, YouTube and other sites
Teen, Convicted In Texting Suicide Case,...
From prison because of good behavior
15 Sure Signs Your Teen Is A VSCO Girl
The trend started out on TikTok as more of a joke, but then the inevitable came
Woman Disguised As Teen Boy To Abuse...
Girls thought they were in a relationship with a teen boy. It was a woman grooming them for sex.
UK: Shock Surge In Adolescent Anorexia
Experts blame social media and celebrity diet culture as hospital admissions for under-19s suffering eating disorders DOUBLE in a decade
How Social Media Is Transforming Teens&...
How can an increasingly sexualized culture co-exist with less sex among the consumers of that culture?
Parent And Teen Discussion Sex And...
So, what should parents do about it?
Book: Girls Fighting The Addictive Power...
Revealing what advertisers know about human nature and how they exploit it to make a profit
The Teen’s Guide to Social Media &...
The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices 21 Tips to Wise Posting in an Insecure World
Way To Respond To Teenage Girls’...
7 vital strategies parents and leaders can use to respond teenage girls’ stress and anxiety
Busting Myths About Teen Girl Anxiety
Whether or not they personally experience anxiety and depression, 7 in 10 teenagers view both as major problems among their peers
CDC: HUGE Increase In Teen/tween Suicide...
Are you engaging your kids in these conversation?
What Phones Do To Teen Brains
And What Teens Wanted To Know About That
She Tried To Quit Her Phone. She Got...
“It was hard for me to admit that maybe life without a phone was a better life for me.”
Flashback: 17 Slang Words
A list of 17 popular slang terms and the correct way to use them
Cellphone Detox For Teens
It was 4 a.m. she had been on her phone for 13 hours. In three hours, she had to be up for…
Is Tik Tok Desensitizing Kids?
“It’s shocking how these kids expose themselves to be liked or disliked,”
How To Create A Professional Photo Booth
The Photobooth that we created will be unmanned and sit out in the lobby the 4th Tuesday of each month
Man Entices Girl 16 For Sex Through ...
pleaded guilty in federal court today, whom he met through the “Game of War” application on her cell phone, to engage in…
Mental Health: Impact Of Social Media On...
It emerges that Instagram is the social media platform with the most negative effect on the psychological state of young people
Social media influencing young boys&...
Book: boy‘s body Sport health and physical activity
Excessive Screen Time linked To Teens...
A new study is warning parents that excessive screen time may be behind a stunning rise in children who need prescription glasses.
The Terrifying Side Of Kids Addicted To...
Nature Valley asked them (three generations) one simple question, “What did you like to do for fun as a kid?”
The Facts About Teen Suicide And How to...
Teen suicide is the highest in history — 14.46 per 100,000 for young people between 15 and 24
Where Kids Spend Time Online
83% use YouTube, 21% use Twitter, 38% use What’s App, 33% use Instagram, 35% use Facebook, 34% use Snapchat
Sheriff Warns Parents 15 Apps Used To...
Social media has made it easier than ever for predators to connect with children. He said that means parents have to be more…
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