Looking for gift ideas for your teen driver or race fan?
Speaking of gift ideas, the National Institute on Media and the Family has a 2008 MediaWise Video Game Buying Guide including a list of great games for kids.
Melisa’s son experienced his first lockdown at his high school. How scary!
Teens prefer Gmail for their email needs, but texting is still their favorite form of communication.
Kids are actually learning life lessons by sending all those text messages.
But there are definitely some downsides of texting, including swollen thumbs, big bills, and sexting.
Flirting has gone high tech with about 20% of teens sending naked …read more

When we were kids we gossiped the old fashioned way. We passed notes or whispered in the hallway between class. We huddled in the girl’s bathroom or talked to our friends on the phone for hours every night.
Today gossip has gone high tech. There’s no need to pass notes when teens can just text each other. Instead of phone calls teens spend their nights on the computer talking to friends on IM or on social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. There are even websites specifically for the purpose of gossiping about classmates, teachers or other enemies.
We thought gossip was …read more