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Dr. John Trent
Bestselling Author
Family Therapist
Dr.Trent@socialshield.com
Jodee Blanco
Bestselling Author
National Expert on Bullying
jodee@socialshield.com
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The Internet Talk: Parent Talking Points for Each Age
The Internet talk is the new sex talk. You need to have it with your kids, and you need to have it early. Like sex, the Internet can be a very scary and dangerous thing that should only be used at certain ages and always done correctly. Yet, it can also be wonderful and exciting, and, now, it is a true part of life.
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How to Handle Social Networking With Your Kids
This is from my series about Kids Online: Workshop Presentation where I give parents and kids a really basic explanation of teens and the Internet from a younger perspective. One of the major complaints about Frontline's: Growing Up Online is it only covered the surface of what we, net-geners, are really doing online and what parents can do about it.
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Hello, it's good to meet you. I'm Jodee Blanco. Some of you may already be familiar with my work. For those of you who aren't, I'm a former victim of school bullying turned activist and the New York Times best-selling author of Please Stop Laughing At Me…, my memoir of how I was shunned and tormented by my peers from fifth grade through high school for the same reason so many other young people are today, simply for being different.
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