Sue Scheff: WiredMoms.com Helping Keep Kids Safe Online

Wired Moms is an online community of people that are dedicated to keeping our kids, and all kids, safe online. This site is your virtual back fence - a place where you can come and meet with other moms to share stories and learn different ways to navigate through the latest technologies that our kids seem to know intuitively. Register today, stay involved, meet new people and have fun at the same time. We look forward to hearing from you!

Visit http://wiredmoms.com/ for more information.

Sue Scheff: TeensHealth

TeensHealth offers great articles, thoughts, ideas and more for kids, parents and teens. They update their website frequently to keep up with today's generation of parenting. Visit www.teenshealth.org today!

Sue Scheff: Parents Everywhere! Parenting Teens Today

Parents Everywhere is a great resource for parents! Suzette Boyette has developed a website offering Podcasts of great conversations with professionals, educators, authors, parents and more!

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Parents Everywhere’s mission is to educate parents to be more effective so they may raise healthy families. Parents Everywhere envisions a world with effective parents who have powerful loving connections with their children. Children grow and flourish in supportive and peaceful homes. They become not who we want them to be, but who they are meant to be.

Sue Scheff: NextGen Parenting - Innovative Parenting for the New Generation

Kids nowadays are different from the previous generation. They have mobile phones with textbooks stored inside, with computers and laptops that connects to Facebook and YouTube. Some even begin to make money faster than their parents.

Apart from that, they are smarter, most probably caused by the food they eat, or even their surrounding.

At present, this is Generation X, Y and Z, or simply said, the new Millenials.
So as a parent, the challenges to educate and teach them is very different from they way our parents educate and teach us.

NextGen Parenting is founded for that purpose.

NextGen Parenting is going to launch on 1 January 2009 and currently are looking for volunteers to blog and contribute articles and content to the site.

Contributions in any way are welcome. If you are interested to volunteer to the cause bringing up the next generation more effectively, email vince@nextgenparenting.com and joann@nextgenparenting.com

Sue Scheff - Parenting Teens and Kids Online

i-Safe Inc. is one of the leading organizations in promoting Online Safety for our kids and teens. As a parent advocate, I believe it is a parents responsibility to keep informed and updated on todays technology and what and where are our children are “surfing.” For the New Year - take the time to learn more about Cyber-Safety.

Source: i-SAFE Inc. is the worldwide leader in Internet safety education. Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S. Congress, i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere. i-SAFE incorporates classroom curriculum with dynamic community outreach to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement, and concerned adults to make the Internet a safer place. Please join us today in the fight to safeguard our children’s online experience.

Sue Scheff: Play The Real-Life Money Game With Your Teen

By Sarah Williamson

Written by a parent, tested on teenagers, Play the Real-Life Money Game With Your Teen is an easy and fun approach to building your teen's financial skills, resolving conflict around money issues, and helping your son or daughter become a financially responsible adult. Hands-on financial tools include: a step-by-step approach to developing a plan, a score-keeping box to gauge progress, plus worksheets and practical tips for earning, spending, saving, giving, borrowing, lending, investment and taxes.

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Sue Scheff - Teen Sex, Social Networking and Parenting

The news today? Teens floating photo's of themselves in their birthday suits, well, more or less. It seems more and more teens are not thinking about the consequences of sending questionable photos through email, texting, social networks etc. Parents need to explain to their child that placing such pictures may potentially cause them "not" to be accepted at a college or not get a job. More and more college admissions offices and potential employee's are Surfing the Net to find out more information on applicants. What you post today, may haunt you tomorrow!

With all the discussions around the nude pictures - it brings up another concern - does this mean your teen is being recognized as a sex object? Does it say he or she is "easy"?

Many people will ask, "where are the parents?", however it is almost impossible to monitor your teen 24/7, especially Online. As parents and adults everywhere, we need to tell our kids how this can harm them in the future. Their BFF today - may be their enemy next summer! Then where will those photos end up?

Keep informed - stay up to date with information for parents and teens. Visit The National Campaign to Help Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.