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Staying Connected to Your Tween

Donna Fish | Posted 05.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Adolescent Girls, Tweens, Connection to Kids, Active Listening, Adolescent Behavior, Texting, Adolescent Development, Living News

Have you noticed your preteen spending more time away from you when what might feel like a minute ago they were asking you to stay longer at drop off?

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Irrational Connection: Always Connected, Never Connected

Russell Bishop | Posted 05.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Connection, Education, Twitter, Social Networking, Facebook, Texting, Social Media, The Balanced Life, Living News

Why are we so fascinated with the notion of instant, easy connection? I understand the driving needs of the driven to stay connected on the business ...

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Sexting and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Stephen Balkam | Posted 04.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Sexting, Family Online Safety Insitute, Fosi, Cyberbullying, Stephen Balkam, Nude Photo Sharing, Iphone, Sex, Cellphones, Texting, Style News

Sexting -- teens sending sexually explicit photos of themselves via cell phones -- has become the latest in a line of highly charged issues involving kids and the internet.

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Leave Them Kids Alone!

Alan Miller | Posted 04.11.2009 | Style

Read More: Childrens Health, Children, Sex Education, Sex, Texting, Teenagers, Sexting, Adolescent-Sex, Teenage-Sex, Adolescents, Parenting, Teen Texting, Teen-Sex, Adolescence, Overbearing Parents, Dirty Texting, Technology, Style News

Our inability as a society to be clear about morality and sex these days, with adults increasingly seemingly incapable of holding the line about what is right and wrong in an age dominated by relativism means that often kids do not get clear enough boundaries.

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How Much is too Much Pre-Teen Text?

Donna Fish | Posted 04.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Pre-Teens, Myspace, Facebook, Texting, Teenagers, Socializing, Living News

As a parent, you can give children tools to help them navigate their expanding social world, with the ability to disconnect, take their own space, and remain connected to you.

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The Subtext of Texting

Stinson Carter | Posted 03.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Cell Phones, Pda, Texts, Bars, Conversation, Texting Addiction, Electronics, Texting, Stinson Carter, Living News

It used to be that if you tried to talk to someone, you only had to compete with the other people in the bar for their attention. Now, you also have to compete with whoever that person is texting.

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Will Texting Be Our Lexical Undoing?

GOOD Magazine | Mark Peters | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Texting and Language, Texting, Living News

The truth? Even though the increasing popularity of text-messaging since 2001 has spawned frequent, doomy pronouncements about illiterate teens, dese...

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The 10 new Golden Rules for Living in a Web2.0 World

Rick Smith | Posted 02.16.2009 | Business

Read More: The Internet, Texting and Driving, Internet, Twittering, Twitter, Social Networking, Home Movies, Computers, Web, Social Network, Media, Technology, Webcams, Texting, Business News

The 21st Century has ushered in new social media applications. But with access to these tools granted across the entire Bell curve of intelligences, it seems as if we have handed out guns to chimpanzees!

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The World Breaths a Sigh of Relief as America's Light Goes Back On

Rob Kall | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Humanity, Hope, Barack Obama, Obama Hope, Obama Wins, Obama Election Day, Election Day 2008, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama President Elect, Obama Administration, Barack Obama Acceptance Speech, Election Results, Political Texting, 2008 Election, Obama Acceptance Speech, Texting, Obama President Elect Speech, Presidential Results, Obama Presidency, Obama Us Foreign Relations, Barack Obama Wins, President Elect Obama, Obama Election Night, Politics News

Looking at the faces of the people in the crowd, as Obama gives his first speech as president-elect, I see a hope that beams bright, a hope that does not stop at red or blue state borders.

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How Mobile Technologies are Changing Elections

Jonathan Spalter | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, Text Messages, Mobile Devices, Mobile Commons, Dccc, 2008 Presidential Race, Campaign, Mobile Future, Texting, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News

Anyone who wonders where mobile technology is taking America's elections should have heard Casey O'Shea talk this week about the political power of mo...

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Chicago Bans Texting While Driving

Chicago Sun-Times | Fran Spielman | Posted 11.08.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Texting and Driving, Chicago City Council, Chicago Bans, Ed Burke, Chicago Texting Ban, Texting and Driving Ban, Texting, Chicago News

Motorists who send text messages or surf the Internet while driving would face stiff fines -- ranging from $75 to $200 -- under a crackdown advanced b...

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California Outlaws Text Messaging While Driving

AP | Posted 10.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Texting, Driving, California Texting Ban, Home News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a law making it illegal to read or send text messages while driving in California. T...

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Fish Texting and the Great Green Wave

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Sustainable Food, Texting, Fish, Sustainable Seafood, Green News

In his forthcoming book CauseWired: Plugging In, Getting Involved, Changing The World, newcritics.com writer Tom Watson says super-wired Americans can...

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Shut Up and Drive -- or At Least Stop Texting

Ari Bendersky | Posted 10.13.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Cell Phones, Hands-Free Laws, Texting, Cars, City Council Bans, Driving and Texting Ban, Texting and Driving, Chicago Driving Laws, Ed Burke, Chicago Hands Free Law, Chicago Cell Phone Laws, Chicago Cell Driving Ban, Chicago News

Ed Burke's proposed law sounds like a great idea. But just like the hands-free law that's supposedly in effect in Chicago, this new law will, sadly, most likely get ignored as well.

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MediaBizBuzz on Democrats, Republicans, Gustav and Ike

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Sms, Pow, 9/11, Aim, Mccain, Stall, Perspctv.com, Craig, Texting, Vp, Rnc, Virtual Worlds, Fox, Minneapolis, Rove, Dncc, Alaska, Boxer, Nbc, Twitter, Platform, Biden, Blogs, Powell, Warner, St. Paul, Techpresident, Brave New Films, Politico, Northern Command, Celebrity, Myspace, Police, Huffingtonpost, Cheney, Kennedy, Romney, Obama, Jindal, Cbs, Bush, Dean, Lieberman, Lobbyists for McCain, Pawlenty, Giuliani, Daily Show, Clinton, Protest, C-Span, Big Tent, Keynote, Mccain's Mansions, Im, Abc, Gustav, Streaming, British Petroleum, Facebook, Cnn, Digg, Ike, Palin, Web Video, Rasiej, Rncc, Quik, Nagin, Mashup, Sifry, Fowler, Greenwald, Daylife, Secondlife, Hutchinson, Ridge, Kovic, Sanchez, Sheehan, Home News

Click for News, Photos and all the links to major press coverage of the Republican Convention and for the Democratic reaction. This past week could ha...

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Put the Cell Phone to Bed, Please!

Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 08.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Health, Sleepwalking, Cell Phones, Technology, Text Messaging, Sleep Disorders, Texting, Sleep, Living News

As crazy as this might sound, there might be some truth to the recently discovered phenomenon of "sleep-texting."

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