I’m working on an article about fear, faulty surveys and fear-based messaging and its impact on our attitudes towards children and teens.  In the meantime, please [...]

by Larry Magid As we start the new school year, there are two trends in online child protection that are worthy of scrutiny. The first is the growing trend towards software [...]

Larry Magid’s presentation at the National Conference on Child Abuse and Exploitation in New Orleans, August 25, 2011 Do fear and exaggeration increase risk? View more [...]

In an effort to make thing simpler and more obvious, Facebook is changing the way people control who has access to their posts, status updates, pictures and other content. [...]

Hanan Lavy, CEO of United Parents United Parents, an Israel-based company, offers software that alerts parents via email or text message if their kids [...]

Depending on one’s perspective, Twitter and Facebook have been credited and blamed for helping to organize uprisings in Egypt, Iran and elsewhere in the Middle [...]

There have been a couple of interesting blog posts lately about the issue of whether suspension, expulsion or other strong disciplinary measures actually help deal [...]

SafeKids.com and ConnectSafely.org are developing a resource directory for youth in crisis. The directory is not for general information but urgent services and helplines for [...]

The FBI has released a simple iPhone app that can store information about your children and send it to authorities in the unlikely event they go missing. Parents fill out [...]

A controversial new law signed by Missouri’s governor would make it a crime for a teacher to have an “exclusive” conversation with a current or former [...]