Helping Young Children Avoid P*rn Addiction
By Katelyn King No one wakes up in the morning and decides, “Today I am going to get addicted to porn”, especially not a 5th grader. But it can happen, and it does. It happened to my own brother. When my brother was in 5th grade, his best friend showed him a...
Online Bullying: What to Do!
How Parents Can Prevent And Deal with It By Ariane Robinson It’s true, kids can be cruel. I still vividly remember the insults thrown at me by a group of “popular” girls at my junior high. Their ridicule made it hard for me to attend school, but I knew at the end of...
Inspiring Kids to Choose Their Own Body Image
By Hannah Herring Growing up, my hair was almost always long. By the time I was twenty, I had allowed my hair to grow past my hips. One day, I woke up and announced to my roommate that I was getting my hair cut. We found a salon and walked in. I informed the...
Social Media and Kids: 6 Tips for Curbing Isolation and Loneliness
By Ariane Robinson Thanks to social media, video chatting, text messaging, and emails it’s easy to connect with friends and family. All-day long we text, post, and comment. Wouldn’t that mean that we are closer and more connected to others than ever before?...
Social Media Bullying: Understand It. Stop It!
By: Courtney Cagle Amber was browsing Instagram when she saw an unappealing picture of one of her school peers. Curious, she started going through the comment section to see what her friends were saying about the picture. Her friends were posting comments such as,...
5 maneras en que los niños pueden usar los teléfonos inteligentes para bien
Por Haley Hawks Traducido por Luis Antonio Mayen Castellanos Nací en 1995, y me pareció que estaba en medio de una gran revolución tecnológica. Recuerdo cuando mi escuela pasó de no tener computadoras, a clases obligatorias de computación, con papeles escritos a mano,...
No tengas “La Charla de Sexo” con tu hijo: ¡tengan muchas!
Por Amanda Grossman-Scott Traducido por Luis Antonio Mayen Castellanos La primera vez que tuve una conversación sobre sexo con mi hijo mayor, probablemente le di demasiada información. Todo comenzó cuando asistí a una proyección para padres de la película que...
Errores comunes que los padres cometen cuando hablan a sus hijos sobre el sexo
Por: Ariane Robinson Traducido por: L. Antonio Mayen Castellanos Para muchos padres, la parte más difícil de tener “la conversación” con sus hijos es saber cómo iniciar la conversación. Mientras crecía, recuerdo a mis propios padres andar de...
Kids Can Change the World with Their Phones: Do Your Kids Know How?
By Ariane Robinson So many amazing changes and movements have been created by teens across the world. Powerful examples like Malala Yousafzai’s fight against the Taliban for girls’ education and the students behind the more recent #neveragain movement after recent...
What Online Predators Don’t Want YOU to Do
By Kelli Bouck As I scrolled through the photos on my phone, I was caught up in all the spectacular pictures I had just taken while on vacation with my sisters, until my eyes fell upon something I never expected to see. Right there, among my vacation photos, appeared...
