Dr. Westendorf discusses messaging apps on The Morning Blend
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Sexting
Parents often like to believe that their child would never engage in any untoward behavior, such as smoking, drinking, sexting, or bullying. However, there are far too many parents who are shocked back into reality when they learn just how scandalous their teenager is behaving. One question that often comes from the parents we see…
Video gaming and Grades
The Link between Gaming and School Performance The Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister and its National Children’s Bureau (NCB) just completed a 2-year longitudinal study of adolescents looking at a variety of issues related to technology use. http://www.ncb.org.uk/media/1229655/ict_me.pdf. One of the issues addressed in this study was whether video game use…
SnapChat App No More
Snap Chat No More Parents should be extremely cautious if their child is using Snapchat. Snapchat is an app that allows individuals to send images and videos to friends and permits the sender to place a time limit on how long the receiver of the image or video can view it. The images “disappear”…