Here's just one to get you started...a very popular question asked last night. What's the right age to get my kid a cell phone? As we discussed, each kid and each family's guidelines are different, but use your village to get feedback! More important than their age is their maturity level, and whether or not you think they can handle the responsibility.
Common Sense Media - Facebook
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Safer Search engines:
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Adolescent Development:
- Julie Metzger, RN, MN and Robert Lehman, MD, Great Conversations
- Robin Wright, The Wright Conversations
- Amy Lang, Birds + Bees + Kids
- Jo Langford, Be Heroes
Books:
- Bazelon, Emily - Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy
- boyd, danah - It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens
- Damour, Lisa PhD - Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood
- Englander, Elizabeth - Bullying and Cyberbullying: What Every Educator Needs to Know
- James, Carrie - Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap
- Jensen, Frances E. MD - The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist's Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults
- Sales, Nancy Jo - American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenage Girls
- Wiseman, Rosalind - Masterminds & Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World
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