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Jun 4
2 min

Sexting and Your Teen

Your teen is more connected to technology now than ever before. They are also just as curious about sex as ever before. Sexting is basica...

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Heather E Williams

Jun 2
3 min

5 Tips for Monitoring Your Child's Technology Use

One topic that comes up again and again from parents is how to monitor and install parental controls, while still allowing for some auton...

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Heather E Williams

May 4
3 min

A Parent's Guide to Social Media

Social media drives youth in modern-day America. The documentary Social Animals demonstrates just how pervasive social media is to teens ...

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Heather E Williams

Apr 27
2 min

Mentor More Than You Monitor

Of the many different topics I have researched while working for NetSmartz, one of the most important concepts that I've come across is t...

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Heather E Williams

Apr 17
2 min

My Sunshine

I. Love. Music. Music has always been a passion of mine, ever since I started to learn how to play piano when I was five years old. Thoug...

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Kylie Henrie

Mar 11
2 min

The Loneliness Epidemic: Does it Affect You?

While working in a restaurant last summer I took an order for a very unique guest; he was a middle-aged man who had long blonde hair, wor...

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Kylie Henrie

Jan 29
2 min

5 Ways to Make the Internet Your Ally

Towards the beginning of last summer, I scrolled past the most adorable video of baby mountain goats. I was hooked. I proceeded to fall d...

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Cole Parkinson

Nov 1, 2019
2 min

A First Impression

A recent traveling experience has me thinking much of the contributions or lack of, that we share with one another. An interesting illust...

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