Safe Surfing for Teens
Ran across this aticle today, and thought I’d pass it along. Teens spend a lot of time online, communicating and socializing, and they should be aware of the dangers and as well informed as we can make them.
Ran across this aticle today, and thought I’d pass it along. Teens spend a lot of time online, communicating and socializing, and they should be aware of the dangers and as well informed as we can make them.
In honor of World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse, Marj set today as the day for this month’s blog carnival, and got an overwhelming response! I even managed to get something submitted that I wrote earlier in the month, in spite of how busy I’ve been. 🙂 As always, go check it out…
From the New Yorker website, you can read a lengthy, but well-researched, look at how pedophiles not only groom children, but groom the adults around those children. Much of the article focuses on the Penn State situation, but there are mentions of other pedophiles and how they managed to be believable and part of the…
Enjoyed listening to this Psych Central podcast about telling fact from fiction when it comes to mental health info. Dr. Grohol talks with Gabe about two things that I have definitely seen over and over. (But the information he shares about bad studies, and low quality journals is also worth thinking about. Misleading, or attention-grabbing…
As a survivor, there are a couple of things I honestly believe to be true of all survivors, and how we all decide to deal with our stories. One, is that every single survivor has the right to tell, or not tell, their story in any way they want. Some do it anonymously, some don’t…
Congrats to John Grohol and the rest of the folks over at Psych Central on 13 years of providing good mental health information online. I’ve been a fan of that site for many years, and now is an opportune time to thank them for their work! There is a whole lot of great stuff over…