Helicopter parents monitor and advocate in all details of their children’s lives well into young adulthood.  So when Lenore Skenazy wrote in her column (for the New York Sun) that she let her 9-year-old son travel home by himself on the subway in New York, she sparked a controversy that led to her creation of the website “Free Range Kids” and a book by the same title released last Spring. (Note this blog …

I found a very clever and humorous video that portrays how a mother can literally cyber-stalk her college-aged child living away from home via Facebook and Twitter.

 A classic tale of the old “double-edged” sword of technology, this video reveals in very great detail that while the social media network sites make it easy to connect and share information and experiences, anyone can easily get a hold of information posted in very innocent ways if …