Sextortion – What Parents Need to Know to Keep Their Children Safe
A parent recently reached out to me with a horrifying and heartbreaking story about his 8th-grade daughter. It was a story that had been going on for the better part […]
Preventing Campus Violence Through Creating Safe School Climates
On February 19, 1997, 16-year-old Evan Ramsey entered his high school in quiet Bethel, Alaska and used a shotgun to fire on fellow students. He killed one student and the […]
Roblox Game Review- What Parents Need to Know
Roblox, first launched in 2005, has become and remains a very popular multiplayer online game for children 8 years old and up. It can best be described as Minecraft meets […]
Sarahah App – What Parents Need to Know
Sarahah, an Arabic word that means, roughly, “”honesty.”” It is a free social media app popular with teens. Launched last year, anonymous messaging app Sarahah is no longer available on […]
Whisper App – Phenomenally popular app with teens and predators
Whisper app is a phenomenally popular app with teens. Whisper has a total of 17 billion monthly page views on its mobile and desktop websites with 250 million monthly users, […]
Harvey Weinstein, #MeToo, and Online Pornography
What does online pornography, Harvey Weinstein, and the #MeToo movement have to do with each other? Why is one of the biggest proponents and incubators of sexual inequality and sexual […]
TBH (To Be Honest) App – What Parents Need to Know
” I have recently received questions from several parents about a new app, TBH. TBH, which means: “”To Be Honest,”” is a social media app for teens 13-years or older. […]
New School Year with New Dangerous Apps
We are several weeks into the school year and you may be thinking the dust has settled. Unfortunately, new apps are appearing on our students’ phones causing issues at school […]
Antichat – What Parents Need to Know
This new smartphone app ‘AntiChat’ is free of charge for both iOS & Android & lets you talk about just anything with other users. You can join any of the available […]
How to Talk to Your Child About Porn
The Internet has made hardcore pornography more accessible than ever before in human history. More people visit pornographic sites than Twitter, Netflix and Hulu combined. As the prevalence of pornography […]
