Age-appropriate use of wireless devices
Monday, September 17th, 2012TheFish103.9FM CyberParenting Topics Tuesdays
The other day a friend was telling me about how a young child sat down to read a book with his mom, I mean an old fashioned paper book, and when it came time to turn the page, the child swiped the page as if working the touch screen on an iPad or Kindle.
You can imagine how perplexing it must have been for the small child. Was the book broken?…
FBI ChildID app offers prarents preparedness without fear
Friday, August 5th, 2011SACRAMENTO — The FBI just released a free mobile phone app that enables parents to provide the authorities with immediate identity information including current images in the event a child is lost or kid knapped.
Special Agent Steve Dupre of the Sacramento FBI office encourages parents to consider this child identity application as a tool that will act as insurance, but does not signal a rise in the threat of child abduction.
“In the unlikely …