'Being a Parent Involves Being an Adult'
Our post on keeping kids safe on Facebook inspired some interesting discussions on parenting in the comments.
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A San Francisco mother mobilized police and the Internet at large to help find her missing 22-year-old son this week, but it turns out, his phone had just died. Sure, it makes for easy jokes about helicoptering moms, but in this case, the son did give her good cause to worry.
Our post on keeping kids safe on Facebook inspired some interesting discussions on parenting in the comments.
If you're a concerned parent, don't let the exposé-like title "Tweens' Secret Lives Online" of Katherine Rosman's article in today's Wall Street Journal fool you--it's a perfect guide for anyone wanting to wean their precocious child off of Facebook.
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