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Here is an excellent article from Sue Scheff who is an Author and Parent Advocate. She founded Parents’ Universal Resource Experts in 2001. P.U.R.E. is an organization that helps parents with struggling teens. Learn more at www.suescheff.com and email Sue at [email protected]
Learning the teen language is only the beginning of parenting teenagers today.
Do you know the A-Z text codes?
Brought to you by TextZapper, now is a very good time to become an educated parent!
TextZapper is a parental-controlled cell phone app, which essentially has a message monitoring component that notifies the parent who is alerted via a text on their cell phone – if a suspicious text or email is sent to their son or daughter.
Any language which makes reference to sex, sexting, as well as things related to cyberbullying, suicide, guns, weapons or drugs – among many other things – are red-flagged.
There are more than 11,000 key words and phrases that trigger the notification. In addition to the alert about the message, the parent will also receive the phone number responsible for sending the message.
Here is an A-Z list of text codes you should know about:
ZapMyText and learn more about what your teens are talking about. More importantly, be sure they are not text talking and driving. Texting and driving is deadly – talk today to your teen about texting and driving and the life you save may be your child’s.
Don’t forget about distracted bicycling! Too many teens are texting and pedaling, which is extremely dangerous too. Read more.
Although Florida has a texting and driving bill that passed the Senate Committee, currently there is not legislation in place. For the Florida law update, click here.
Anna, a Sunrise resident and mother of a 15 year-old daughter, reviewed the above list. “Where in the world do these kids come up with these things. When we were going up we would be punished for even mentioning some of this stuff,” Anna stated. Yes, this is a new generation.
Be an educated parent, you will have safer teens.
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About the author
Sue Atkins is a Parenting Expert who offers practical guidance for bringing up happy, confident, well behaved children. She is also the author of “Raising Happy Children for Dummies” one in the famous black and yellow series published worldwide and the highly acclaimed Parenting Made Easy CDs. She regularly appears on BBC Breakfast and The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 and her parenting articles are published all over the world.
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