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Helping Your Child Stay Safe While Home Alone
Kids have stayed home alone for decades. The term “latchkey” kids was created in the 1940s during World War II. Because of the absence of men due to the war, many women were forced to work outside the home for the first time, leaving kids to fend for themselves after school. During this period of time, a kid would often hang their house key from their neck for safe keeping, which led to the creation of the term “latchkey kids.” Today, many families are two-income households or single-parent families, meaning “latchkey kids” are just as prevalent today as in the 1940s, and it is a situation that often times…
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Kids Online: Teaching Them Right and Wrong in a Grey World
It can be a jungle and a nightmare out there in the Internet world, and our children are being targeted and targeting more and more frequently as technology becomes easier by the minute. Dosomething.org, an organization for teens and social change, reports that 43 percent of kids have been bullied online, and identity theft protection company LifeLock.com states youth as the fastest growing demographic for credit and identity fraud. The World Wide Web can be as wonderful as it is horrible for children and parents. After all, never in the history of the world have we had access to a world of information at the click of a button.…
