Real Wired Child - Michael Carr-Gregg New softcover book Kids Online

REAL WIRED CHILD

What parents need to know about kids online

by MICHAEL CARR-GREGG

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New softcover book, 208 pages, published 2007.

How can you protect your kids if you don't know where they are?

Few parents would let their children wander the streets at all hours or meet with strangers, but kids do that and more on the internet without even leaving their bedrooms.

Do you know the people your daughter chats with online every night? Is your son being cyberbullied? Have you seen the videos your kids are downloading? Michael Carr-Gregg urges parents to venture into the online world inhabited by their children and get in touch with their day-to-day lives. He explains what kids get up to, provides guidelines for family internet safety and advises how to minimise the risks without limiting your children's freedom to learn, explore and communicate online.

The internet has changed parenting forever. Michael Carr-Gregg provides an essential guide to the online world of today's real wired children, from toddlers to teenagers.

Chapters include:

• A crash course in the internet
• The digital generation gap
• What kids do online ( and how to help them do it safely)
• The dangers
• Cyberbullying
• Is there such a thing as internet addiction?
• Schools and cybersafety
• The family internet safety contract
• What to say to your kids
• Resources

About the Author:

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg was educated in Kenya, England, New Zealand and Australia. In 1985, he founded the world's first national teenage cancer patients support group, CanTeen - The Australian Teenage Cancer Patient's Society. Michael has worked in private practice as a family therapist, child psychologist and clinical psychologist, as an academic, researcher and he spent 4 years working as a political lobbyist. Michael is one of Australia's highest profile psychologists. He is the consultant psychologist to many schools and national organisations, an official ambassador for the federal government's youth suicide prevention programs beyondblue and Mindmatters, and the resident psychologist with Channel Nine's Today Show. He has written several books on parenting adolescents and is a columnist for Girlfriend and Australian Doctor magazines. He has won many awards for his work. He is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour, and as a practising psychologist specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health. His other books include Adolescence - A Guide for Parents, The Princess Bitchface Syndrome, Real Wired Child, Surviving Adolescents , Surviving Year 12 and When to Really Worry .

Most importantly, Michael is married and has two children, supports Hawthorn in the AFL and South Sydney in the NRL. In 2000, he was the subject of a This Is Your Life program on Channel 9. He works in private practice in Melbourne.

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Real Wired Child: What parents need to know about kids online by Michael Carr-Gregg