Thriving in middle school comes down to focusing on three main areas: confidence, connection and challenge. Take two minutes to breeze through this short (11 page) eBook and begin your journey toward a more fulfilling year.
The download is free with the encouragement to send it on to someone who could benefit from a few new ideas.
Enjoy!
Canadian police struggle to grab hold of evergrowing Facebook challenges.
Facebook and other popular Internet social networking sites are prompting extra vigilance on the part of police, especially as they figured in some potential threats in Hampstead and Côte St. Luc last week and earlier this year, Station 9 commander Sylvain Bissonnette told The Suburban Friday.
Montreal police in general have been increasing vigilance in light of the recent news of a 13-year-old local girl being found in the hotel room of a Belgian tourist — the two had communicated through the Internet. Also, earlier this year, The Suburban learned that several students attending a high school in Côte St. Luc received sexually-oriented demands and threats through the MSN network.
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June was internet safety month. As we move into July the tips from this article still apply. Given the amount of time kids spend online particularly during the summer months I consider these tips worth reviewing.
My favorite tip:
Exercise Your Parental Right to Supervise — There’s a difference between being snoopy and ensuring safe activity. You don’t have to read every last word of a personal message your son or daughter sends to a friend. But you do have the right—and the obligation—to see who your kids are talking to, and to know the general subject matter.
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New book, Generation MySpace bites into teen internet use. I found the following interview and article about the book.
Many families preserve history through photos. Often, a trip to grandma's would seem incomplete without a trip down memory lane via the big book of pictures.
These days, electronic media dominates everything from the way we listen to music, communicate and save images. Almost every cell phone has a built-in camera, which has some parents concerned -- for good reason.
According to a recent report by the Associated Press, more and more teens are taking inappropriate photos of themselves, often wearing little or no clothing, and sending them to prospective boyfriends or girlfriends. More worrisome, these photos, once on the Internet, are accessible to practically anyone.
And it's not just troubled inner-city teens doing the dirty downloads.
An article from one of my favorite bloggers, Aurelia Williams.
Some would joke that the only way to motivate teens is to threaten or bribe them, well those may work but in the long run, they won’t teach your teen the valuable lesson of accountability {smile}.
As you know, teens never seem to lack motivation to do what they want to do — talk on the phone, meet up with friends, go to the movies, etc. But, when it comes down to getting them to do the things that we want them to do and the things that the need to do, that seems to be a different story.
Here are some tips that we as parents can use to help motivate our teens to become more organized.
On a separate note, should you find yourself in the Santa Barbara area on either
Wednesday, July 30th or Wednesday, August 6th
you're invited to attend a free presentation for parents and kids heading to middle school this coming fall. We will focus on building strategies in three key areas:
Send an email if you would like me to hold a spot for you.
Scan the full list of stats for kids of all ages here.
A few that stood out for me in the middle school realm:
