Preventing Online Cyberbullying

In today’s world, tweens are just as likely to play out their freindships online as they are in person. So how do you keep your kids safe online and prevent cyberbullying? First, what is cyberbullying? It’s simply bullying tactics – like hazing, teasing, and harassment moved into the online world, using [...]

Parenting Tips – Handling A Tween Friend Challenge

Ahh the drama. Tween friendships. Perhaps you have the same best friend since kindergarten. Perhaps you don’t and have memories of terror filled days at school with the mean girls ganging up and making your life miserable. Perhaps you were a mean girl yourself (and wish you hadn’t been). Perhaps you’re [...]

How to Protect Your Child from Being Cyberbullied

It used to be so easy. Your pre-schooler would ask if she could go on Noggin.com. You would type in the URL and walk away from the computer knowing she was safe. Eventually, you put the icons on your desktop so that she could simply point and click to the websites she wanted to go [...]

How to Protect your Tween from Being Cyberbullied

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Probably the most important thing to teach our children is they need to think and if they’re not sure – ask – before they post. Things that are put on the internet can stay there indefinitely. We tell our daughters not to give out personal information, share photos of themselves or passwords. [...]

How to Tell if your Tween is being Bullied

So you have that sinking suspicion your daughter is being bullied. How do you know for sure, and what can you do about it? Studies and experience suggest that just about all girls will be the target of some bullying as they go through school. And while this can be a passing [...]