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What do you say if your teen comes to you distressed having received an unwanted image of someone else’s naked body? What do you do if you find explicit sexual images on your teenager’s phone? [...]

Does your teen own a smartphone? If they do, have you had a serious discussion with them about how to use it in a safe and sensible manner? Smartphones, and other such mobile devices, are [...]

Try and imagine a future where the morality and social awareness the world’s inhabitants is shaped entirely by tabloid current affairs programs, viral YouTube videos, and MTV. Hopefully it won’t [...]

It’s one of the questions that will define this generation of parents – “Should I friend my teen on Facebook?” This is a defining question as it encapsulates the most [...]

With smartphones rapidly becoming the most common mobile device throughout countries like Australia, UK, and the USA, an increasing number of teenagers have access to the internet via their [...]

Earlier this week I read some interesting research about parents who have iPhones (I posted the article on Understanding Teenagers Facebook page) and it got me thinking about the way technology [...]

I have written previously on this blog about the issues of teenagers getting enough sleep. So it will come as no surprise to those who are regular readers of this blog that the following research [...]

Recently I have been working on courses to help teachers connect more effectively with today’s teenagers. In the process I have gone down numerous tangents, with varying degrees of [...]

In my previous post I discussed 8 reasons why teenagers are increasingly likely to struggle with addiction to online gaming.  Knowing the reasons is one thing, knowing what to do about it is [...]

Online gaming. Those words alone are enough to make some parents cringe in agony. The concept of versing opponents via the Internet isn’t as new of a concept as most think. As early as the mid [...]