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Modern manners for kids
Teaching your child to use the right fork or fold his or her napkin properly may seem like a nice after-thought in today’s world, but modern etiquette experts say proper social graces can affect your child’s future. These days, etiquette classes teach children not only impeccable table manners, but how to develop skills that will help them network, socialize and interact with others as they...read more...// //Modern mom on cyber patrol
I'm staring at my son's Facebook page, horrified. At 12, he has joined groups expressing an appreciation for chesty females and what it's like to be a guy who is well-endowed. What's my next move? Lecture? Shut down his page? Laugh? Cry? With Mother's Day around the corner, I am reminded of the challenges of being a mom in the year 2010. We moms must be fit and look young. We must contribute to or...read more...// //Up all night texting
Between their crazy schedules and upside-down circadian rhythms, teens always have been somewhat sleep-deprived. Now technology is making it worse. Teens are not just texting, instant-messaging and surfing Facebook all day; they're sleeping with their cell phones or laptops, too. Or rather, not sleeping. And doctors and parents, many of them raised in an era when phones were attached...read more...// //Teen 'sexting' = porn?
CHICAGO -- Though youth is fleeting, images sent on a cell phone or posted online may not be, especially if they're naughty. Teenagers' habit of distributing nude self-portraits electronically -- often called "sexting'' if it's done by cell phone -- has parents and school administrators worried. Some prosecutors have begun charging teens who send and receive such images with child...read more...Electronics costing kids sleep?
Los Angeles Times Declining amounts and quality of sleep in U.S. children could be linked to changes in media use, the Kaiser Family Foundation reported Monday. Children are more engaged in the Internet, video games and cell phones than with older types of media, the report says, and might use them at times that interfere with sleep. Some children take their cell phones to bed. The report...read more...
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