When a child gets poor grades or isn't turning in their homework, a kneejerk response is often "He's just not motivated."  However, children and teens ARE motivated - just not necessarily for the things we'd like them to be motivated towards! 

I am extremely new to social networking - so its probably appropriate I'm choosing to launch off my blog with tonight's Parent Help Live webinar that was held on Cyberbullying.  I wonder if other parents are in denial like I have been about the prevalence of "cyberbullying".  We had a wonderful speaker, Sharon Cindrich on tonight -  she helped educate us on what is happening for our youth today on the internet and other technologies.  What was really helpful is that she showed us ways to help better equip our children to be good "cyber-citizens"as well as ways to avoid being a victim.  When I was growing up, I never gave a second thought to someone having a camera around - but today, everyone has a camera on their phone and kids can take some pretty provacative pictures that can potentially be seen for years when they're posted publically on the net.