How Can You Monitor Your Child’s Cell Phone Texts? An Internet Safety Expert Tells You.
A couple of days ago, I posted information about a new social website for tweens called WhatsWhat.me.
The website has an expert on internet safety, Katie L. Greer. She answers questions in the Parent’s Resource Center.
A recent question from a parent was about how to monitor a child’s cell phone texts. Here are her suggestions:
If [...]
Here’s a Safe Social Website for Kids!
I found this great resource for parents of “tweens” – kids between 7 and 13 years old – about internet safety. www.WhatsWhat.me is a safe social website for kids.
It’s protected, it’s monitored, and it’s secure.
It’s a place where tweens can go and “friend” other kids within their grade, one grade above and one grade below.
It’s [...]
What’s the Top Cause of Accidental Death for Children? CARS!
Here’s a guest post from Steve Gursten, a great child injury lawyer in Michigan. He writes about Michigan, but everything he says is true in Virginia. From infants to teenagers, motor vehicle accidents are the most frequent cause of injuries and accidental death.
Injury lawyer gives 14 tips for protecting your kids in the car – [...]
Daycare Providers Flying Under the (Regulatory) Radar
My friend Ken Levinson, is a great child safety advocacy lawyer in Chicago. He sent me a link to an article about a tragic case in Wisconsin in which a five-month-old baby suffocated while at an unlicensed facility. Landon Schultz’s parents needed a place for their baby to stay while they worked and chose an [...]
Sandra Talks to Teens About Social Networking & Cyberbullying
I recently volunteered to talk to teens at a local high school about social networking — especially Facebook — and cyberbullying. I love talking to teenagers. I get such insight into how they think and what’s on their minds.
It’s near the end of the school year, and kids are tired of school and their [...]
Hyperthemia Kills – And Summer Is Not Even Here, Yet
NEVER, EVER — EVEN FOR A MINUTE — LEAVE YOUR CHILD ALONE IN A CAR.
Summer 2011 has not even yet arrived, but a child has already died from hyperthermia. (Hyperthermia is the term for what happens when a body overheats and cannot regulate its temperature after being exposed to extreme heat.)
In August 2009, I posted [...]
Public Service Announcement – Kids and Cars and Heat
Here’s a link to a public service announcement produced by KidsandCars.org about how little time it can take for a child to die in an overheated car. It’s hard to watch – which is why it’s so important that you watch it.
Heat + Child Left in Daycare Van = Tragedy
I wrote some information here and here about what to look for when evaluating a daycare center. But, I left something important off those lists.
If you need a daycare provider to pick your child up and take her to the facility, you must make sure that it has a system THAT IT ACTUALLY USES for [...]
Virginia Schools Have Responsibilities for Bullying
Virginia laws requires schools in Virginia to establish and enforce policies to protect our children from bullies and to deal with the bullies when they attack our children. The library of our firm’s website lists these sections of the Virginia Code about bullying:
1. This section requires every school board in Virginia to establish anti-bullying policies.
2. [...]