What Exactly is Your Troubled Teen Talking About?
The most critical tool for teen crisis intervention with troubled teens is knowledge. That means that parents need to equip themselves with information that will enable them to identify when a teen is high, identify illegal substances, be aware if any particular drug is making headlines in their town. For instance, parents in Texas are on the look out for cheese heroin and _. Montanans need top be very wary of meth and Northeasterners are seeing heroin slowly making inroads.
A lot of information is available on the internet and indeed, that is where your teen is getting his. But what if you are monitoring your teen’s online activities but you have run into an unexpected language barrier. Enter NetLingo.com - the parents guide to the arcane teen languages used in the digital world.
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- 95% of parents didn’t recognize the lingo kids use to let people know that their parents are watching
- 89% of sexual solicitations are made in either chat rooms or Instant Messages
- 20% of children age 10-17 have received unwanted sexual solicitations online; that’s one out of every five kids
- 75% of youth who received an online sexual solicitation did not tell a parent
- 81% of parents of online youth say that kids aren’t careful enough when giving out information about themselves online
- 76% of parents don’t have rules about what their kids can do on the computer
- 65% of parents believe that kids do things online that they wouldn’t want their parents to know about
- 4,000,000 children are posting content to the Web everyday
- 15,000,000 youth use Instant Messaging
