A Wired Family Update: Your Child & Twitch
In this video we will look at one of the fastest growing content and technologies being adopted by teens: video game live streaming platforms such as twitch and its [...]
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A Wired Family Update: Virtual Reality Porn & Your Child
The past few weeks we have been busy traveling throughout Ohio and Kentucky presenting to students, parents and healthcare professionals on the issues related to the constant [...]
Sextortion: Forwarned is Forearmed
Years ago, I recall hearing the Latin words, Praemonitus praemunitus. I was too young then to appreciate its significance. For those of you that are a bit rusty on your [...]
A Wired Family App Update: MY3
According to a July 2016 publication by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for children between the ages of 15-19 years old. [...]
A Wired Family App Update: CRISIS TEXT LINE
As I mentioned in our program on the MY3 app, an American Academy of Pediatrics report from July 2016, stated that Insert Graphic 2 suicide is the sec ond-leading cause [...]
A Wired Family App Update: Tumblr
I’ve been using Tumblr to distribute my articles for about two years. However, I’ve spent very little time reading other people’s content… until recently… and [...]
A Wired Family App Update: Hot Or Not
Growing up can be difficult. Teens are almost by design concerned with how they look, sound and whether they fit in. Many of today’s apps don’t help – as many teens are [...]
Jailbreaking & Rooting: All The Cool Kids Are Doing It!
Over the past few months I’ve seen more and more interest by teens to jailbreak or Root their phones. For most parents those are foreign terms. However, in reality your [...]
What’s In A name: Apple, Microsoft & the New Peach App
I started my career in the technology business at the intersection of stuffed white shirts and T-shirts and jeans. That was in the spring of 1981 when the honeysuckle and [...]
Today’s Headlines: 4Chan, Katy Perry & PewDiePie
For many Americans, the first we’d heard of the 4Chan site was following the deadly mass school shootings in Oregon on October 1st of this year. The attacker had posted [...]