Family life is being increasingly affected by screens … TVs, computers, game consoles, along with hand-held electronic media — the ubiquitous cell phone, and portable devices like Sony’s PSP. This generation, more than any that preceded it, do not regard electronic media as anything special. Concerned parents can wonder just how ‘normal’ all this screen […]
Frowning on Facebook: Is the internet really to blame?
By Peter Jon Mitchell, Research Analyst, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada “In many cases, parents have abdicated Their responsibility, unaware of what is happening online today.” National Post May 2. Recently several eighth graders in the Toronto area made the news because they were caught passing notes. Not the usual folded scraps of paper, […]