— Alistair Berg/Getty Images The world of online gaming can be daunting — and downright scary — for parents. How do you know what your tweens or teens are talking about or where they’re hanging out online? And how can you tell if they’ve stumbled into a situation that could potentially be predatory? While your...
— Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Shutterstock Exuberant cheers are coming from my basement. I hear the teenage verbal equivalent of high-fives (“Let’s go!”) and know that my 13-year-old son and his best friend just won the Battle Royale. If you had said things like “sandbox” and “squad” to me two years ago, I would have thought...
— Tatevosian Yana / Shutterstock I’m pretty sure when my parents talked to me about safety in the early ’90s, they were only thinking about unsafe situations I could encounter when I was away from them, newly navigating my way through the big, uncertain outside world. Once the streetlights came on and I was home,...
— LPETTET/E+/Getty Images It’s as much a tradition as taking a first-day-of-school photo with a chalkboard: bitching about the car line at school. I’ll be the first one to admit that I’ve huffed my way around the car line circle, throwing my hands up at parents who get out of the car to open their...