Tag: PARENTS

Share After her 3-month-old son Dylan Lee Edmonson died in January, 22-year-old Alexandra Tobias was arrested. During her interrogation, Tobias told authorities that she had shaken young Dylan because he was crying while she was playing 'FarmVille' on Facebook. According to her statement to investigators, she shook the infant once, and then smoked a cigarette before returning to shake Dylan ...

Your mom may be a compulsive Facebooker, but does that necessarily make her a spammer? According to Facebook's security system, it does. When the social network launched its new Groups feature a few weeks ago, many mothers, like Lucy Berry of Kansas, began using the tool to share parenting tips and stories between themselves. But because some of them posted so incessantly, Facebook ...

Parents often fret about video game addiction and the effects of violent games, but one super-geek dad has apparently realized how to address those concerns. Eleven-year-old Joseph DeRose loves gaming, so his perceptive father recently took part in -- and actively promoted -- his son's pastime by helping him to construct an incredibly cool Halloween costume. Relying on an incredibly steady ...

Babies born today aren't just born into the age of Facebook, they're born on Facebook. According to a new study conducted by Research Now, 92-percent of all American babies have some form of online presence by the time they reach the age of two. After surveying 2,200 mothers of young children in the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, and several other developed countries, researchers discovered that ...

New parents may be a notoriously finicky bunch, but their paranoia is usually well founded. With all the horror stories of babies dying from SIDS, sleep apnea, and negligent babysitters, it's no wonder that so many mamas and papas treat their infants like fabergé eggs. Soon, though, the hyper vigilant parents of the world may be able to sleep a little easier, thanks to a new set of pajamas ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/06/30/david-after-the-dentist-nets-family-150k/'; Don't let anyone ever tell you that being a viral-video star is not a viable profession. Business Insider reports that the DeVore family has made roughly $150,000 since January of last year, when David DeVore uploaded a video of his son, also named David, to YouTube. That video, 'David After Dentist,' ...

The New York City Department of Education recently proposed an amendment to its disciplinary code that would punish students for sexting outside of school hours. Under the new rule, kids could face 90-day suspensions for sending sexy texts, e-mails or photos that cause disruptions in school -- regardless of where or when they were sent. The rule would also address instances of cyber-bullying. A ...

Not long ago (although it may seem like an eternity for some), kids learned of exotic locations and their inhabitants through handwritten interactions with distant pen pals. That specific reference to a writing implement increasingly loses relevance in today's lexicon, though, so parents may need to consider a modernized adaptation -- perhaps "Skypals" might be more appropriate. As modern kids ...

Share There's no denying that social media and networking are an integral part of both social and professional interaction in the 21st century. Therefore, it's necessary to expose children to these tools as early as possible in order to help them develop the proper digital literacy they'll need to succeed. But there is, of course, a danger inherent in letting your eight-year-old sign on to ...

Share If you're still blaming 'Duck Hunt' for the fact that your kid grew up to be a serial killer, wait till you get a load of the bloodthirsty games Nickelodeon is now marketing to today's generation of miscreants. The Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood has awarded Nickelodeon's AddictingGames.com with the dubious title of 'worst toy of the year,' after tallying nearly 5,000 ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... Echoing what everyone on the Web has known for three years, Rupert Murdoch has reportedly admitted that his News Corp. organization "made some mistakes" with MySpace. (Ya think?) He also proclaimed that the "iPad will lead a revolution." He was, of course, only talking about a monetary revolution, saying, "Unlike Kindle, we keep ...

Police investigators in Bethesda, Maryland are currently looking into a widespread sexting scandal at a local middle school, and, as the Washington Post reports, say they've traced it back to one entrepreneurial student. According to the Montgomery County Police, a student at Pyle Middle School was recently caught passing around his iPod touch to all his friends, and charging them for the chance ...

Dealing with intrusive parents and family members on social networking sites certainly poses a difficult dilemma. Faced with such a predicament, a 16-year-old in Arkansas has apparently grown so disturbed by his mother's Facebook activity that he is reportedly suing the woman. The unnamed youth lives with his maternal grandmother and believes that Facebook comments made by his mother, Denise New, ...

Fans of massively multi-player online games (MMOs) frequently receive ridicule for their fervent devotion to online avatars. Rarely do those devoted gamers become so engrossed in their multiple virtual personalities that they face criminal charges, though, let alone negligent death accusations. In a horrific case of Net obsession, a South Korean couple has been charged in relation to the death ...

Babies these days just can't catch a break. When parents aren't turning their infants into LOLCats, they're posting every waking moment (literally) of their existence to the Internet for the whole world to go gaga over. Or, every now and then, they're dumb enough to publish photos so scandalous that social services comes a-knocking. The BBC reports that police in Essex, U.K. have undertaken a ...