Parenting teens

McAfee Inc ., a well known and respected provider of antivirus software and intrusion prevention solutions, recently released new research which indicates that most American mothers rate their teenagers’ online safety, their exposure to drugs and drunk driving, as essentially equal anxiety producing agents. So, are these mothers concerns justified? You bet! While it’s true that the Internet can provide a rich educational and cultural experience for children, and teenagers, it is virtually...Read Full Story

McAfee, Inc ., a well known and respected provider of antivirus software and intrusion prevention solutions, has just released new research which indicates that most American mothers rate their teenagers’ online safety, their exposure to drugs and drunk driving, as essentially equal anxiety producing agents. So, are these mothers concerns justified? You bet! While it’s true that the Internet can provide a rich educational and cultural experience for children, and teenagers, it is virtually...Read Full Story

Children. They are both a tremendous joy and occasional disappointment. Joy for all the things they accomplish, excel at and do right. Disappointment for all the things they mess up, can't be bothered with and deftly ignore. My husband and I don't insist on very much from our children. Maybe that's why they sometimes fall short on my expectation meter. No one is perfect, I know, most of all not moi , but couldn't my kids at least pretend to be model offspring? Is it wrong to want children to...Read Full Story

Warning – Disciplining teenagers can be hazardous to your health. “Some people think discipline is making your children do what you want.  Actually discipline is how you react to your children when they don’t do what you want.”   –K. McCurdy (my counselor) I thought this was a profound idea and it put this whole disciplining teenagers thing into perspective, a  better perspective for me to deal with at least.  It removed the pressure of feeling like a failure if my kiddos didn’t do exactly...Read Full Story

Let’s cut to the chase immediately - video game addiction is a real addiction, just as Internet gambling is a real addiction; just as an addiction to Internet pornography is a real addiction. The question that needs to be explored more thoroughly however is: is video game addiction the kind of serious problem that the media would have us believe? Or, do the media, for the sake of sensationalism, take isolated instances of computer addiction and create a frenzy of concern that is...Read Full Story