Are You Monitoring Your Teen’s Instagram This Summer?

MamaBear notifications to parents monitoring their child’s (teen’s) Instagram account seem to spike during the summer. Instagram has been popular with smartphone wielding teens since the initial launch of the photo sharing app and the app now has over 80 million...

A Parent’s Look Inside Teens’ Web Chat

Good parents want to teach their children to walk and run, but still protect them when they fall. Healthy parenting is finding a balance between opportunity and risk. Children need to have the opportunity to grow and explore with as little risk of endangerment as...

Should Tweens Be On Facebook?

This is a question that has been lingering for the past couple of years.  We know that kids under 13 are joining, but should they be? The brave new world of technology has expanded so far that even your grandmother may have an account on the social networking...

Safer Online Teen Challenge!

Every parent worries about their children both online and off. Who are they talking to online?  Are they chatting with strangers?  What information are they sharing?  Does your teen or child know the boundaries? Let’s face it, you can never be safe enough or...

The S-A-N-T-A Claus for Safe Holiday Shopping

The National Retail Federation estimates online purchases for the 2012 holiday season will reach $96 billion, up 12 percent from 2011. Scammers, hackers, and “phishermen” have already taken their positions, waiting for the next unwitting shopper to...

New Study: Parents, Teens and Online Privacy Issues

In a time when Facebook and Twitter are the new normal for conversation, it is nice to hear that teens and parents are concerned about privacy issues online. A new poll finds that many parents have new concerns about their children and their privacy online. The Pew...