Oct 15, 2012
Thanks to my ConnectSafely.org co-director Anne Collier for her thoughtful post about cell phone tracking that concludes “most parents don’t really need software to parent.” I of course agree. What she said about tracking apps, tracks (no pun intended) what...
Aug 29, 2012
by Anne Collier I suspect two reasons why people (mistakenly) think cyberbullying is on the rise are… 1. Its increased visibility: Cruel words and behaviors are unprecedentedly public now, because of the social Web, so that’s what’s actually growing – the...
Aug 21, 2012
By Anne Collier While the US mental healthcare field is considering whether “Internet addiction” is a disorder, it doesn’t seem to understand how vast and diverse Internet use is. When a CNN reporter asks psychiatry professor Charles O’Brien at...
May 15, 2012
Level-headed advice for parents who really want to help and not overreact By Anne Collier It’s no longer just two talks that parents need to have with their kids, the New York Times suggests – “the early lesson about the ‘birds and the bees’...
Apr 9, 2012
by David Finkelhor, Heather A. Turner & Sherry Hamby This commentary argues that it is time to make bullying less of the central concept in efforts to combat peer victimization. Bullying has been a pivotal concept in the mobilization of effort in recent years to...
Mar 6, 2012
This post is adapted and expanded from one that appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on March 5, 2012 by Larry Magid There has been a lot of work over the past few years to combat online and offline bullying. Olweus Bullying Prevention Program has been providing...
