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How to Motivate Your Teenager to Do School Work

Your teenager wants to be treated like an adult, so let them feel like one. There are many ways you can do this, while ensuring that they still get their work done. Try one or two of the ideas below to see which resonates most with your teenager...

By Jessica Thiefels

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How to keep your children safe and not overwhelmed with the Coronavirus

With all of the changes to everyday life due to the Coronavirus, we need to help our children adjust to the new and unfamiliar situation of indefinite school and childcare center closings.There are...

By Kristin Maclaughlin

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Monitor Kids’ Exposure to Coronavirus (COVID-19) Related News

The Net Nanny team has received multiple requests in the last 24 hours from parents of children that are anxious because of news about coronavirus. Building on our Custom Category feature that allows...

By Clayton Ostler

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How to Establish Morning and After School Routines

For most of us, the morning goal is to leave on time with all the things your child needs for a successful school day. When it’s taking more than an hour to get two children ready, I knew something had to be out of place. This is how we established our morning routine years ago that we still use to this day...

By Gina Badalaty

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How to Ease the First Day of School Anxiety

We often think of those “first day of school jitters” as something our preschooler, kindergartener, or middle schooler feels; however, the unknown produces anxiety for all of us.

By Charlene Underhill Miller, PhD

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How Predators Could Be Playing Online Games with Your Child

Dateline’s To Catch a Predator series left a lasting impression on me, and many others, I’m sure, despite the relatively short run of the series. Admittedly, I only caught an episode or two, but...

By Lauren B. Stevens

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How Exposure to Violence Has Increased Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is a huge problem across the U.S. with more and more kids falling victim. Bullying is no longer restricted to the classroom and playground, but now with social media on iPhones and...

By Carli Leavitt

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How Do You Know if You Have a Pornography Addiction?

If your porn use is starting to take over daily thoughts and real-life interactions, you might begin to wonder if you have an addiction to pornography. Pornography addiction, or watching porn to the...

By Charlene Underhill Miller, PhD

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Heavy Screen Time Rewires Your Child's Brain

Could screen time actually be beneficial to your child’s cognitive development? It was once theorized that the more stimulation on the child’s developing brain the better. Of course, this theory...

By Annemarie Lange

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