Help Your Teen Make MySpace a Safe Space Online Never heard of Friendster, Facebook or MySpace.com? Your teen has. And there’s a very strong likelihood he or she has a personal page on at least one of these social networking websites. After all, the popularity of such sites – especially the juggernaut MySpace.com – is growing at lightning speed. Teens, college students and young adults are creating personal MySpace and Facebook pages as a way of sharing the details of their lives with classmates, acquaintances, friends and – whether they know it or not – complete strangers. In fact, not only is most of the information shared on these “social” pages highly personal; it’s also highly public. So public, in fact, that this apparently innocent activity can potentially put your child at risk in more ways than one. Continue Reading Help Your Teen Make MySpace a Safe Space Online >> Weathering Spring Break: Six Simple Solutions Notoriously one of the most high-risk weeks in the high school year, spring break might offer teens (and their parents) a chance to escape the winter grind, but beach trips, cruises and even a week spent at home can offer up an array of temptations for struggling teens and for teens trying to stay afloat. What's more, it's all too easy to think that sending your kids on a chaperoned trip is the answer. Continue Reading Weathering Spring Break: Six Simple Solutions >>