Cowards Are Blackmailing Young Women to Death on the Internet. Photo by Andrew B.
Myers Last October, a Canadian teenager named Amanda Todd took her own life at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia. Five weeks before committing suicide, Amanda posted a video to YouTube detailing years of harassment she’d undergone after being coaxed to flash an anonymous guy via webcam. In the video, she describes how this man continually blackmailed her into performing live-streamed strip shows. He used the topless images he had of Amanda as leverage, threatening to send them to her friends and family if she didn’t comply. Amanda’s death was widely covered in the mainstream media, with most reporters and law-enforcement officials using the term “cyberbullying” to describe its cause. On the surface, there are the mainstream and highly popular public video-chat sites like blogTV and Stickam, designed to provide an audience for anyone with a webcam and an internet connection.
Facebook post on drunk driving lands teen in hot water. An Oregon teen who posted a little too much information on Facebook found himself in hot water with the police after two of his friends on the site reported his activities to local authorities.
According to a report from the Daily Astorian in Astoria, Ore., also posted on the Facebook page for the local police department, 18-year-old Jacob Cox-Brown was arrested after telling his Facebook network that he had hit a car while driving drunk. The teen sent this message out to friends on the site: “Drivin drunk ... classsic ;) but to whoever’s vehicle i hit i am sorry. :P” According to the report, two of Cox-Brown’s friends saw the message and sent it along to two separate local police officers. In a statement given to the newspaper, the department said that they received word of the post through a private Facebook message to one of its officers. Stone-Age Brains In A Modern World. Thursday, September 6, 2012 A fascinating interview with Jay Giedd, a researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Here, he talks about what our brains evolved to do, and how they’ve adapted to a fast-changing world: “Interviewer: Our brains have been challenged by the effects of multi-tasking in many ways brought on by the age of social media and use of computer gadgets. Teen Hit By Car In Graphic Video Has Message For Cyclists. CBS Minnesota (con't) Affordable Care Act Updates: CBSMinnesota.com/ACA Health News & Information: CBSMinnesota.com/Health MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — A Twin Cities family is sharing a story of a terrible accident, because they believe it can save lives.
Raising Successful Children. 4moms® Announces $20M in Funding with Bain Capital Ventures. 4moms' Origami Power-Folding stroller opens and closes itself at the touch of a button.
Its features include an LCD dashboard, daytime running lights, and a built-in generator that charges the stroller as well as a cell phone. ... PITTSBURGH, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- 4moms®, a developer and marketer of innovative juvenile products, today announced a $20 million funding round led exclusively by Bain Capital Ventures. The funds will be used to fuel continued growth by expanding product development, accelerating the company's investment in supply chain and logistics to meet growing customer demand, and focus on global expansion. (Photo: Founded in 2005, 4moms is the first and only company to introduce innovative robotics technology to baby and juvenile products, a $8.9 billion market in which the products have essentially stayed the same for the past 50 years. About 4moms 4moms develops and markets products for the $8.9 billion juvenile products industry. About Bain Capital Ventures. We All Want to Be Young. For Parents) Below are some of our most frequently asked questions, or FAQs (and here you thought it meant "find another quail", silly you) and other helpful or useful (or even un-useful) information.
What is ChoreMonster? ChoreMonster is a suite of web and mobile apps that aims to make chores fun for parents and kids. Kids can earn points by completing chores that they can turn in for real life rewards like ice cream, an hour of Xbox, or even a canoe trip. Parents can enjoy a simple, hassle-free, digital system that takes the tension out of family chores. Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ... Why French Parents Are Superior (in One Way) Communicating with Children by Actively Listening. November 29, 2011, By Jim Higley I've never read a parenting book. Not one. But what I lack in expert guidance and scholarly research, I've compensated for with a lot of observations, conversations and good old-fashioned trial-and-error.
One of the things I've learned is that being an effective dad requires strong communications with your child. If you can nail that part of the dad job, the rest comes much easier. A daunting task for sure—especially as kids get older. Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills. TV Limits for Children Urged by American Academy of Pediatrics,