Parent Links | Parents - James G. Wellborn Ph.D.

This page contains links to various websites Dr. Wellborn has found helpful, informative, enjoyable or just interesting. [I haven’t finished transferring the links from my computer to the website so some categories are incomplete or empty until I cycle around to them.] There is also a Teen Links page listing websites specifically for teens. Not all of them are provided on this page so you might want to check them out too.

(Remember, this list is not comprehensive and the presence of sites on this list does not constitute endorsement for or support of any of the information provided on these sites.)

Updated: 5/17/21

Abuse and Neglect

Adolescent Development

Advertising and marketing to kids

Aggression and Violence Issues

Alcohol and Drug Use-General

Alcohol and Drug Use-Anti-legalization

Alcohol and Drug Use-Stats

Alcohol and Drug Use-Treatment info

Alcohol and Drug Use-Home Testing

Alternative and Holistic Treatment

Antiracism and Allyship

Anxiety and Fear

Attention Deficit Disorders

Autism spectrum disorders (including Asperger’s syndrome)

Book Reviews for Teens

Boys and Boy Issues-Manhood and Masculinity

Bullying, Harassment and Hazing

Camps and adventure travel

Career and world of work (technical training) sites

Cell Phone Issues

Character Issues

Charities and volunteering sites

College Prep, College Search and Applications

Cool sites

Dating and Relationships – General

Dating and Relationships: Dating violence

Depression

Disasters (natural and otherwise)

Driving issues

Eating Disorders

Entrepreneurial stuff

Excercise and Fitness

Failure

Faith, Religion, Spirituality

Fathers and Fatherhood

Friends and Friendships

Gangs

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Questioning

Gender: What’s It All About?

Girls and girl issues

Girls and Girl Issues-Womanhood and Femininity

Goal Setting

Grandparenting

Green, Environment, Pinko Liberal Stuff

Grief, Loss and Mourning

Guilt

Headaches and Migraines

Heroes and Role Models

Instant Psychotherapy

Internet stuff

It could be worse . . .

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Questioning

Life of the Mind

Marching Band stuff

Media and its effects on teens

Media and violence

Medical sites

Mental Health Sites

Money, Finance and Investing

Motivation

Movie Rating Sites

Music Venues for Teens in Nashville

Nutrition

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder stuff

Parents and Parenting stuff

Pornography issues

Positive Psychology

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Pregnancy

Psychology stuff

Psychology stuff-web personality tests

Rape and Sexual Assault

Sex and Sexuality-Statistics

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Social Networking Sites (e.g., Facebook) issues

Texting and Cell Phone Issues

Things you need to know

Tobacco and Smoking

Tourette Syndrome and Tic Disorder Stuff

Headaches and Migraines

While treating headaches is not my specialty, there are some conditions that are worth knowing about (meaning I have run across these and they are sufficiently unusual for people to think it is psychological rather than medical). Just throwing this in here in case you may be experiencing this and haven’t realized it.

Chronic Daily Headaches

24/7 headaches that continue for days and weeks at a time. People can think you are faking it. Difficult to identify, tricky to try to interrupt the pattern, important to know if that is what you are dealing with.

Here is a link to a broader discussion of a whole range of headaches.

And here is the link to the American Headache Society Lots of reliable and reputable info here.

Heroes and Role Models

http://www.ja.org/files/polls/Teens-Entrepreneurship-Part-2.pdf

Guess who your kid’s hero is?

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_9_112/ai_n21052975/

http://www.americanbible.org/?id=193

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/04/08/hear-them-roar.html

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/roots_of_moral_courage/

http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/in_search_of_the_moral_voice/

http://www.pittsburghinwords.org/tom_junod.html

Here’s the place. Really excellent.

http://heroesformyson.com/

Instant Psychotherapy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYLMTvxOaeE

http://www.break.com/index/kid-loses-argument-with-his-mom.html

http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/expressive-rambo.html

Who needs a therapist when you have lines from movies and a whole selection of stereotypes to draw on? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTj47rcuM-4

Internet Stuff

Here is a good site about parenting teens about internet issues
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/

This is a site by the Tennessee Association of Chiefs of Police to provide some info about internet safety
http://www.deletepredators.com/Parents

This is a specific page from an excellent site on social network media (e.g., Facebook) on how to remove unwanted information (or pictures) from the internet. It is best to go on and pay a internet expert if you have this level of concern.

http://www.iroc2.org/

(There is also a Social Network section below.)

Here is a good way to block unwanted material from coming through on all your devices:

http://www.opendns.com/

And here is one for your mobile devices

http://www.mobicip.com/

Here is a review in PC magazine of software to control and monitor your kids access to the internet. Just search again if this reference is dated. This publication is great for this kind of information and ongoing reviews of these products.

It could be worse . . .

FML: Your everyday life stories

AwkwardFamilyPhotos.com

Jobs and Employment

YouthRules! – What Jobs Can Youth Do?

6 Dream Jobs That Would Actually Suck | Cracked.com

Kidnapping

I hope you are looking at this section out of curiosity or because you happen to be one of those over anxious parents trying to cover all bases. If your kid has been abducted, call the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at 800-843-3052. Call your local police immediately.

Go to this website to know what to do first.

If you are looking for info on how to minimize the likelihood of this happening, try this site

http://www.deletepredators.com/Parents

Leadership

DailyGood: Leadership Lessons from a Dancing Guy

IfWeRanTheWorld

Learning Issues

Mind – Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study Habits – NYTimes.com

SchwabLearning.org – A Parent’s Guide to Helping Kids With Learning Difficulties

STEP : Support and Training for Exceptional Parents : Home Page

Shmoop: Study Guides, Teacher Resources

gladwell dot com – the effects of good teachers

Ode Magazine : Your brain is a rain forest

Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers National Center (ALLIANCE)

The Partnership for 21st Century Skills – Home

This is the site these days for exceptional tutoring in every hard subject. Just look at this and you’ll be convinced. You no longer have to figure out how to algebra (or theoretical physics, for that matter) to help your kid.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

Learning Difficulties and Challenges

These folks have a wealth of information and resources in one place. Look around on the site if you have a special needs kid.

http://nichcy.org/

Does your kid qualify for special education services? Here are the official criteria for the Metro Nashville Public Schools

http://www.tn.gov/education/speced/assessment.shtml#INITIAL

Here is a site that is devoted to ways to insure kids will graduate from high school

http://www.every1graduates.org/

Life of the Mind

Philosophy for Children

Squashed Philosophers- Condensed Plato Aristotle Augustine Descartes Hume Marx Freud Copernicus Hobbes Sartre Ayer Sade Wittgenstein Einstein

WHAT DO PHILOSOPHERS BELIEVE? | More Intelligent Life

Philosophical reasoning taught in the second grade. – NYTimes.com

TED | Talks | Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight (video)

The Play Ethic

Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health Authority: Market Research and Advisory Services | SharpBrains

It Figures – Figures of Speech

5 Things TV Writers Apparently Believe About Smart People | Cracked.com

Why thinking in the shower may be an ideal model for “creative pause” ~ Authentic Boredom

What Happened to Downtime? The Extinction of Deep Thinking & Sacred Space :: Articles :: The 99 Percent

Beware of Reactionary Workflow :: Tips :: The 99 Percent

YouTube – Stop and Hear the Music

‘The Compass Of Pleasure’: Why Some Things Feel So Good : NPR

Brain Quest

Cryptograms.org – Home

And here are some audio essays on hallucinations, psychotic episodes and madness and creativity from the TED talk series through NPR

Marching Band Stuff

Marching Band and Sports on Level Playing Field

Marching Bands Experience Physical Challenges – Health News – redOrbit

Marching in the Band as Tough as Playing Sports – Fitness – FOXNews.com

AWESOME!

Media and Its Effects on Kids

Center on media and child health

Parents or pop culture? Children’s heroes and role models. – Free Online Library

6 Studies That Prove Reality TV Is Causing the Apocalypse | Cracked.com

6 Shocking Ways TV Rewires Your Brain | Cracked.com

Media and Violence

Medical Sites

WebMD: Better Information. Better Health.

familydoctor.org – Health Information for the Whole Family

girlshealth.gov — Health Information for Girls!

KidsHealth – the Web’s most visited site about children’s health

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

For the Public

Welcome to Keep Kids Healthy

Drugs.com | Prescription Drugs – Information, Interactions & Side Effects

Childhood and teen cancer

A Site For Teens With Cancer

Re-Mission: a game for young people with cancer

If you think you are getting better . . .

Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why.

Placebos and kids

Mental Health Sites

APA Help Center

Mental Help Net – Home

mental illness, mental health information center

NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness-The Nation’s Voice on Mental Illness-Formerly National Alliance for the Mentally Ill

NIMH: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Home Page

Psych Central . Trusted information in mental health and psychology

Youth with an Open Mind

http://us.reachout.com/

Money, Finance and Investing

Nine Money Books for Children – SavingAdvice.com Blog

OK, this is an article on how just holding money has an effect on you.
127771.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Talking money with teens | Marketplace From American Public Media

Marketplace | Financial Futures

Living Wage Calculator – Living Wage Calculation for Williamson County, Tennessee

ThreeJars – Allowance Made Easy

Kids these days don’t know as much about money as they need to know

Want to teach your kid about money management? This site has sections designed for elementary school kids, high school kids and young adults. Excellent.
http://www.handsonbanking.org/en/

Motivation

This is the guy on motivating kids regarding school

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9

http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5891781/motivational-cat-speech

Monster.com | “Stork” reaching your potential

http://mymotivationskills.com

National Survey of Student Engagement

Movie Rating Sites

SCREEN IT! ENTERTAINMENT REVIEWS FOR PARENTS

Movie Ratings & Reviews For Children and Family Movies – Common Sense Media

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

http://www.kids-in-mind.com/

Music Venues for Teens in Nashville

Rocketown Nashville

Mercy Lounge / Cannery Ballroom

Limelight Entertainment Venue

Nutrition

This is a government site that gives a lot of information from sources across the government agencies.

http://www.nutrition.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=11&tax_level=3&tax_subject=395&topic_id=1688&level3_id=6570&level4_id=0&level5_id=0&placement_default=0

And this is from the USDA

http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=3&tax_subject=358&topic_id=1612&level3_id=5951&level4_id=0&level5_id=0&placement_default=0

Or, if your kid wants to be a vegetarian

http://www.vegetarianteen.com/

This site is for the thinking teen who wants to know about nutrition

http://library.thinkquest.org/10991/index.html

Lots of info here (it is a website for teenage girls but the information is really good for guys too)

http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/wellness101.html

And, finally, an excellent site about nutrition for athletes

http://www.psal.org/psalsports/articles/psal_stories.aspx?storyid=7178&menu=links

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

This is a good site for resources and materials dealing with OCD

Relief from OCD: A Guide for People with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

This is the premier site for OCD: The OCFoundation.org. This is the teen page

Help for Teens and Young Adults with OCD

An Obsessive Compulsive’s ‘Life In Rewind’ : NPR

Here is a new site that has some good resources

http://www.peaceofmind.com/ (and here is the page for parents)

OK, do NOT look at this if you have contamination OCD issues!

6 Items You Touch Everyday That Are Filthier Than a Toilet | Cracked.com

This online program looks promising for helping your child with their OCD

Parents and Parenting Stuff

I love this. It is an essay on not having the perfect child

http://jezebel.com/5982888/sorry-internet-but-there-is-no-simple-formula-for-producing-perfectly-well+behaved-kids-in-every-situation?utm_source=gawker.com&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=recirculation

Spanking? What’s the problem?

Child and Family WebGuide: Parent Info on Child Development Research

CPYU || The Center for Parent/Youth Understanding – Home

Parents handbook3.pdf (application/pdf Object)

About.com Parenting of Adolescents: Most Popular Articles

Talking With Kids About Tough Issues: Ten Free Tips For Improving Communications With Your Children

About Focus Adolescent Services

FreeRangeKids

Ways to track your kid

TheSourceSpring09.pdf (application/pdf Object)

YouTube – The Daughter Song (Tom Wilson Stand-up Comedy)

Parenting Advice, Activities for Children, Family Games & Recipes – FamilyEducation.com

YouTube – Still Face Experiment: Dr. Edward Tronick

Resources | Start Strong parenting and teen dating

http://MyParentingSkills.com

Discipline for Teens and Preteens

Parenting From the Kid’s Perspective–Radical Parenting

Parenting Guides | Parenting.org

Children of the Affluent

Want to get your kids into college? Let them play – CNN.com

Here is a parenting blog that has had some interesting things to say

http://committedparent.wordpress.com/

See, it was all worth it

The Effect of Children on Happiness: The Latest from the Research Frontier, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

Great resource for parents of older teens about what to expect and how to help

Fast Family Support Center

Parenting Over the Edge

This is a section I hope you will never need. What do you do when all you have tried still doesn’t work. There isn’t much available for parents whose child hasn’t/doesn’t/won’t respond to all you try to do to raise them well. Read with caution. If this is for you, you will know it. Make sure you check with someone who know what they are talking about before you decide this is your kid.

Giving up on your kid: It’s so hard to do.

But sometimes, it’s just a mismatch of styles

Pornography Issues

This is an excellent TEDx talk on the effects of pornography on teen brain development (and hence, on their sexual development)

Here’s that guy’s website that provides scientific information on the effects of porn on users.

Enough is Enough: Protecting our Children Online

http://www.deletepredators.com/Parents

Your kids are faced with the presentation of sexual intimacy almost exclusively in the form of pornography. It has devastating consequences for their ability to enjoy satisfying sexual intimacy. This link is to a talk by a very accomplished woman who has something to say about the need to educate our kids about what sexual intimacy. This link is to a 4 minute talk in which she starkly and explicitly presents the problem. Even if you don’t agree with her own liberal views about sex you should listen to her message that someone other than pornographers should be talking to your kid about sex. This talk has some vulgar, obscene references but they are in the service of talking about the issue.

And this is a TED talk by a female porn producer who talks about why porn is a problem in shaping our kids (and everyone’s) view of pornography. Even if you disagree with her on the need to have sex positive and realistic porn, she is right on target about the problem with the fact that our kids are getting their sex education from porn. “The sex can stay dirty but the values have to be clean.” You need to watch this if you are raising a teenager.

Positive Psychology

Count Your Blessings – Health and Happiness – TIME

Home – GivesMeHope – Like FML, but for optimists!

MyLifeIsAverage – Life Is Normal Today

GRATEFULNESS.ORG – A Network for Grateful Living

Gratitude Challenge: Sharing Our Inspiration Journal

Urge to Help

Optimism is not for the faint of heart (or the untrained professional)

Watch Motivational Speaker Board Break Fail Video | Break.com

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD is not something that you can help your kid resolve on your own. Look over these resources so that you can see if you think your kid has been traumatized by something that has happened to them or they have observed. Then go get a mental health professional trained in helping kids who have been traumatized.

Here is a description of child traumatic stress.

Here is info from the Anxiety Disorders Association of America website link for child and teens with traumatic (or other forms of) anxiety. Look around on this page. Lots of valid and useful information.

http://www.adaa.org/living-with-anxiety/children

If YOU have PTSD, here is a book you should consider getting for your teenager so they can have some idea what is going on.

http://www.seedsofhopebooks.com/finding-my-way.html

Pregnancy

Polling Data | The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.

If they are going to keep the child, it can’t be all pain and recrimination

Too much too young: five teenage couples speak out | Life and style | The Observer

This has some segments on teen pregnancy, all the dimensions

9INE: A realistic look at teen pregnancy

Psychology Stuff

Psychology Stuff-Web Tests

Are You a Risk Taker? | Psychology Today

http://mystressmanagementskills.com

http://mymotivationskills.com

LASSI – Learning and Study Strategies Inventory

Smart Family System

Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire

Psychological Tests Online, Online Psychological Tests – HealthyPlace

Sensation Seekers Scale

Rape and Sexual Assault

Get Info | RAINN | Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network

http://sacenter.org/

Risk Taking

This site, Action Quest, has some structured, camp like adventures for teens that are more exotic than the usual fare.

And don’t forget about NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) and Outward Bound as adventure camps.

Sensation Seekers Scale

Are You a Risk Taker? | Psychology Today

Self Control

Dept. of Science: Don’t!: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

The Marshmallow Test | WorshipHouse Media

YouTube – M & M Dilleys

The Good Behavior game and academic success

Self Help

This is the one to start with. Local psychologist David Yarian has gathered an impressive library of self-help for a wide range of issues.

The Guide to Self Help Books: Your Online Bookstore for the Best in Self Help, Self Improvement,Self Development, and Personal Growth

MySelfHelp.com Online Self Help Programs for Depression, Eating Disorders, Stress, and Mental Health

SelfhelpMagazine | Your Trusted Source for Self-help and Psychology Since November 1, 1994

Self Injury and Cutting

Self Injury

Sex and Sexuality-General

Sex, Etc. — Home

Sexuality and Relationship info you can trust from Planned Parenthood® — teenwire.com

Baby Cost Calculator | Tools | BabyCenter

Scarleteen | Sex Education For The Real World

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/may-8-2009/hooking-up/2896/

http://www.sash.net/

http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/a-letter-to-my-son-about-consent/

Be sure to go to the Pornography section above. You need to know things about it because it is the main source of sex education for our kids.

Stop It Now! is a great site for families where a child has been sexually abused (and how to reduce the likelihood of it happening). Lots of info on healthy sexual development, warning signs in your child (or a potentially abusive adult).

Sexual Harassment (See Bullying, Harassment and Hazing section)

Sex and Sexuality-Statistics

Guttmacher Institute collects stats on sexual and reproductive health. This is on teens

http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-ATSRH.html

Virginity-and-The-First-Time-Summary-of-Findings.pdf (application/pdf Object)

http://canyourel8.com/teen-statistics

FS: The Truth About Adolescent Sexuality

Sexual Knowledge, Values, and Behavior Patterns of Adolescents

CDC – Data & Statistics

Quick Stats on Female Adolescents.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Quick stats on Male adolescents

Teen Sexual Behavior Quick Facts | CitizenLink

Middle school youth as young as 12 engaging in risky sexual activity

But, it isn’t as many as you think. Careful with statistics

http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/a_mean_age_for_youthful_sex

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Planned Parenthood, Take Care Down There

HIFY: Health Initiatives for Youth

Shyness

Caring for Your Introvert – Magazine – The Atlantic

Introverts: strength in (a lack of) numbers | Blog | Ode Magazine

Sibling Issues

Sibs with Disabilities

The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has this great list of books for siblings of kid with all kinds of challenges and medical conditions (as well as the death of siblings and mother’s unborn child)

Sleep Issues

Healthy Sleep from the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart Blood and Lung Institute

Here is more technical information about what goes on during sleep

healthy_sleep.pdf Guide to healthy sleep

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/

World’s Biggest, Most Annoying Alarm Clock Video

Night Terrors Resource Center

Some wonderful information here including checklists, worksheets, ways to assess whether you have a sleep disorder and strategies for dealing with it.

Social Activism

CoolPeopleCare | Saving the World, Five Minutes at a Time | Information, Inspiration & Local Events

How do I make a difference? — Social Edge

The Rebelution

Be the Change. | HandsOn Network

Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment

Volunteer | Do Something

Columns | Never Get A “Real” Job

Welcome to the Giraffe Heroes Project

Social Networking Sites (e.g., Facebook) issues

This is a GREAT site. Comprehensive, informative and continually updated. This is the place to go for information for parents about social media and networking sites.

http://www.connectsafely.org/

Here is another good site that also has excellent information.

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/

http://www.iroc2.org/

Social Skills

This has some useful ways of thinking about the range of social skills deficits kids can exhibit

http://www.socialthinking.com/images/stories/ST%20SCP%20%20Ver%20%206.12.pdf

Sports and Athletics

This is a great site on a program for having coaches be more conscious of the messages they send to your boys.

Creating a Community of Respect | Coaching Boys Into Men

Athletes vs non athletes 8 years after graduation

Sportsman (and woman) ship

YouTube – Tom Wilson – Little League (Stand-up comedy)

Sports_HandyGuide.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Josephson Institute Center for Sports Ethics: Youth Athletes Sportsmanship Survey

Stalking

Gavin DeBecker is THE expert on identifying and dealing with people who are a threat to others. (His company consults with the rich, famous and powerful.) He has created a website that allows you to use his assessment program for everyday people to determine the potential threat someone in your life may pose to you. You sign up, answer the questions about the person and a summary report is provided on the level of threat presented by the person you are dealing with. If you have any concerns whatsoever about someone in your child’s (or your) life, start here. Get the facts. It is an invaluable resource for free. There is nothing better.

https://www.mosaicmethod.com/

Then there are also these resources

Antistalking Web Site

Welcome to Your Sanctuary

Ex-blocker on the internet

Stalking Resource Center

Your kid may find themselves a victim of online revenge porn sites. Here is an article by a woman who went to war with one when they tried to smear her daughter.

Statistics on Teens

This is one of the premier sources of statistics on teens and risk behavior, including alcohol and drug use.

http://monitoringthefuture.org/

YRBSS – Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System – DASH/HealthyYouth

Guttmacher Institute: Adolescents

Teen Survey: What’s the Responsible Age for Smoking, Drinking, Sex?

National Survey of Student Engagement

Tennessee’s Adolescent and Young Adult Health Program

Mentally.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Stress Management

Tips for Teaching Mindfulness to Kids | Greater Good

http://mystressmanagementskills.com

http://www.trauma-pages.com/support.php#Stress

Suicide

If your kid has mentioned killing themselves, talked about wanting to die, discussed the lack of anything worth living for or any other reference to ending their life, call a mental health professional now. You need to have someone review the situation who knows what they are looking for. Don’t wait, the risk is too great.

http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/default.aspx

The Jason Foundation, Inc.- Parents

When a parent dies by suicide…-CAMH

To Write Love on Her Arms > Home

Suicide: Read This First

Youth at Risk of Suicide – Welcome

Half Of Us : Welcome

Suicide Survivors

Support Groups

Linda Patin is a local (Brentwood) therapist who has put together a comprehensive list of support groups for every type of issue

Listing of support groups from Linda Arbaugh-Patin’s Webpage

This site is a place to get support from others who are experiencing the same struggle as a patient or caregiver associated with a number of different medical issues.

Health and wellness support groups – Inspire

Here is the Alcoholics Anonymous meeting schedule for middle Tennessee

http://www.aanashville.org/cgi-bin/meetingdb/mtgsearch.cgi

Texting and Cell Phone Issues

Teens and Sexting | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

What is Sexting

Here is an example of a programmable phone where all the functions can be enabled or limited as you see fit. FINALLY!

http://www.kajeet.com/4u/index.html

Text translator

IngentaConnect Exploring the relationship between children’s knowledge of text m…

Thumb Socks Order Form | Thumb Wars | Do Something

Homeroom – LG Text Education

Cell Phone Sanity for Parents!

http://www.athinline.org/

Here’s a wonderful, funny contract

http://www.janellburleyhofmann.com/gregorys-iphone-contract/

Here is a really good cell phone contract by Josh Shipp

And then, there is this father’s solution

http://www.break.com/index/dad-goes-crazy-after-reading-daughters-texts-2065784

Here’s an example of what happens

http://www.break.com/index/impossible-texting-while-driving-test-2322439

Here is a review of a filter for Android devices.

Here software for filtering most mobile devices, and this one, and this one for Iphones, etc. You get the idea. Do some research and find the filtering software you have the most confidence in. The best $20 a year you can spend for this kind of peace of mind.

Things You Need to Know

Most People Are Not Observant Video

9INE: A realistic look at teen pregnancy

Tobacco and Smoking

Tobacco Facts – Spit and Chew Tobacco

Anti smoking site from Ontario

Smokefree.gov

Interactive Tool: How Much Is Smoking Costing You? – What does this tool measure? – MSN Health & Fitness – Quit Smoking

Now look what they found. It’s even worse than you thought.

Tourette Sundrome and Tic Disorder Stuff

Tourette Syndrome Association TSA Home Page

All About Tourette’s Syndrome

Tourette Syndrome Plus – Home Page

Regaining Control: Advances in Behavioral Therapy for Tourette Syndrome Offer Many Children An Alternative to medication. Nikhil Swaminathan. Monitor on Psychology, September, 2012, 44-47

Trichotillomania

Welcome to the Trichotillomania Learning Center

Beautiful video by a very talented young woman who also happens to have trich. Here is another video of hers that follows her from 16-21. Lovely and compelling.

Here is a web-based self-help program for kids with Trichotillomania that also has info for parents.

Tutors in Williamson County

Nothing better on the net.

http://www.khanacademy.org/

The Learning Lab – Brentwood, TN

http://maryleebunch.com/index.html

Video Games

Video game reviews

http://www.ign.com/

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/game-reviews

http://www.esrb.org/about/news/downloads/ESRB_PTA_Brochure-web_version.pdf

How video game developers hook kids on the games