Mentoring kids in a connected world – you don’t have to do it alone.

Should you be reading your teen’s texts? Most of the time, being in conversation with your kids will give you more insights: Mentoring over monitoring. If you do monitor, be sure you are doing it for the right reasons.

Kids deal with small conflicts every day – it’s part of growing up. But for today’s “always-on” digital natives, there are additional layers of complexity. Constant connectivity complicates their social sphere. Here’s how you can be a good mentor and teach conflict resolution to your own digital natives.

If you can empower your child build their contact list slowly and deliberately, this can help them to avoid overwhelm later on when they scroll through their contacts and don’t recognize half of them. Make sure your child  knows it’s fine to ignore requests from people she doesn’t know.

This bill gives parents in an abusive home tremendous power over their children’s communication and contacts. It cuts kids off from the very medium where tweens and teens might reach out for help in that terrifying situation where parents might be abusing them.

Decision Day is already a highly emotional time for college-bound students – and their parents. Social media can make it even worse.

Invited Guest Post by Media Intern, Emma FeuerNorthwestern University Class of 2025, Majoring in Journalism and Data Science As a college student, I was born with a …