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Like most parents, you have probably stopped to wonder where in cyberspace your kids are currently hanging out. According to a recent Forbes piece by Alyse Lorber, “Teens are fleeing Facebook. Why? Because most teens don’t want to hang out with their parents (and their grandparents)!” So where are kids spending their time online today? Here […]
Some things about being a teenager never change: heartbreak over a first love, learning to drive, searching for a college. But today’s teens face new challenges we never had to deal with. So what does the parent of a millennial need to do to keep their teen safe? Here, we share 5 threats your teen […]
It seems like every time we look at the news, there’s another terrible story of a tween or teen being bullied on social media. Their vulnerability, combined with relentless tormenting from their peers even drives some to suicide. It’s an unthinkable tragedy for young people and their parents. Yet social media sites like Facebook, Pinterest, […]
It turns out that your kids are doing a lot more than just texting and IMing with their smartphones, tablets and laptops. According to the Internet Innovation Alliance, they’re a generation connected to broadband in a completely unprecedented way, and that connectivity touches nearly every aspect of their lives. They use their phones in place […]
Meg Medina is an award-winning author of Latino children’s literature. Her work includes the children’s picture book, Tía Isa Wants a Car, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Award, and her first young adult novel, The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind. This month her latest book, Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, […]
Secret Saturdays By Torrey Maldonado Putnam Juvenile • 2010 • 195 pages Hardcover ($16.99) ISBN 978-0-399-25158-0 Ages 10 and up What does it mean to be a man? Living in the hardscrabble neighborhood of Red Hook, in New York City, sixth-grader Justin believes that his friend, Sean, has it nailed. He is good looking, popular, […]
The day after the election a friend posted on my Facebook page, the “Latino Vote –unfrigginbelievable.” She’s right. Many factors contributed to President Obama’s re-election. But few are as important as the Latino vote. Hispanics made up 10 percent of the U.S. electorate this year—doubling in the past 16 years. The number of Latino voters […]
In 1999, I was a high school student attending a school near Columbine High School. I was a mere few miles away from the tragedy that changed the way many schools view security. I remember being in Ms. Race’s math class, just after lunch, as the loudspeaker called all students to report to the library […]
WKBT anchor Jennifer Livingston’s response to a particularly nasty viewer letter about her weight is a wonderful example of how to handle a bully—for kids and adults. We love her moxie and we hope her message makes bullies think twice about their actions and inspires victims of bullying to stand strong. For more fantastic MamiTV […]