15-year-old Audrie Potts from Saratoga, California, took her life after expressing her despair online about being sexually assaulted and cyber-bullied. Her parents only found these messages when searching for reasons after her death. According to some estimates, teens spend half their lives online. These electronic worlds are too dangerous for our kids to live in without the knowledge and guidance of the adults who love them.

Too many times, adults don’t discover online messages about cyber-bullying, parties with heavy drinking, or warning signs of despair or violence until after something terrible has happened, when the opportunity to take protective action is gone.

The senseless school shootings in the news bring up heart-breaking reminders of other outbursts of tragic violence. Kidpower answers key questions in response about how to handle the emotional turmoil after these kinds of violent events.

Traducción: María Gisella Gámez Los sucesos de tiroteos en las escuelas dejan a padres e hijos con un sentimiento de terrible estupor y miedo. Luego de la masacre en la escuela de Columbine, una niña de 6 años me preguntó en un taller: “Y qué pasa si alguien entra en nuestra escuela y comienza a [...]

Last week, I spent some unexpected extra time in Manhattan thanks to Super Storm Sandy. I was visiting my son for the weekend before the storm and due to fly out on the Monday afternoon that it arrived. The only place I could get Internet access was on the window ledge over the bathtub of my [...]