Logged On and Tuned Out: A Non-Techie's Guide to Parenting a Tech-Savvy Generation (One Step Ahead Series)

When CNN and FOX News asked Vicki Courtney to discuss child safety andthe Internet on-air last summer, the best-selling author who is popular amongboth teenagers and parents knew this urgent issue had to become the corethe topic of her next book. For sure, gone are the days when kids were safe just as long as they were athome and under your nose. Today’s children can access the world from agrowing number of portable gadgets, and depending on what they do withthis ability, could potentially invite a world of danger into their lives. Logged On and Tuned Out is a timely wake-up call to low-tech (tuned out)parents whose high-tech (logged on) kids use modern computer and cellphone technology like second nature. In simple language, moms and dadsoverwhelmed by today’s digital world will learn the imperative basics andcheckpoints of Instant Messaging, text messaging, social networking Web sites(MySpace, Facebook), chat rooms, and photo and video uploading. The bookeven has its own related Web