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Tips to Keep Kids Safe Online

Posted: August 11th, 2009 by Michele Borba


Michele Borba   REALITY CHECK A survey of 3,700 middle school age students found that nearly a quarter of the eighth-graders said they were bullied online in a two-month period. Nearly half of 3,000 middle schoolers surveyed knew someone who was a victim or guilty of cyber-bullying in the last six months. Talk to your [...]



Cellphone Rules to Keep Your Kids Safer from Cyberbullying

Posted: August 1st, 2009 by Michele Borba


Michele Borba REALITY CHECK: Did you know that 30 percent of girls who have gone into online chat roooms say they have been sexually harassed, but only 7 percent of those girls say they told their mothers or fathers about the incidents immediately? That disturbing finding comes from the Girl Scout Research Institute survey “What [...]



Michele Borba: 10 Parenting Solutions to Prevent Cyberbullying

Posted: July 16th, 2009 by Michele Borba


Mom and Dad, wake up: If you assume your child is using that fancy home computer to stimulate his brain, think again. The hottest new trend has kids using those keyboards to send vile, hateful and highly slanderous messages about their peers through the Internet. Once confined to playgrounds, bullying has hit cyberspace, cell phones [...]