Straight Talk for Teens

Cell Phones (see also Driving)

Boy’s sexting collection considered child porn

Editor’s Web Note: As a teen advocate, I’ve felt the fascination by the adult community about teen sexting has been overblown — and diversionary. Here we have over 50 percent of the adult population watching pornography…

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Do electronic distractions make you dumb?

Editor’s Web Note: Talk about brain drain. Multi-tasking is the biggest mass waste of our evolved brain to date. As you see from the Hewlett Packard-commissioned study that I cite below, constant tending to emails, texts, Facebook,…

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When do parents get green light to snoop?

Editor’s Web Note: Parental snooping: When is it okay, when is it not? As usual, the panel responses are spot-on, including empathy for parents misled by the media to think kids are in constant peril and in need of surveillance.

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New Teen resources