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Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

AB Team, Oh my kid!, 0 Comments, September 7, 2009, 2:02 am


Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

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Mothers Rate Cyber Dangers as High as Drunk Driving or Experimenting With Drugs

AB Team, Oh my kid!, 0 Comments, June 10, 2009, 12:23 pm

About two-thirds of mothers of teens in the United States are just as, or more, concerned about their teenagers’ online safety, such as from threatening emails or solicitation by online sexual predators, as they are about drunk driving (62 per cent) and experimenting with drugs (65 per cent). Continue reading ‘Mothers Rate Cyber Dangers as High as Drunk Driving or Experimenting With Drugs’

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A New Zealand 3-year-old girl buying a $12,000 excavator

AB Team, Oh my kid!, 1 Comment, May 26, 2009, 2:26 am

A New Zealand 3-year-old girl surprised her mother by logging on to an auction site and buying a $12,000 excavator. Initially the mother thought her daughter bought a toy digger but was surprised to see the actual bill.

She logged on to the auction site (TradeMe) her mother, Sarah, had browsed the previous day, searching to find toy excavators for her daughter. The girl managed somehow to buy an actual mechanical excavator for a sum of £8,000 ($12,400 US).

Luckily for the mother she didn’t have to pay or purchase the mechanical digger. She contacted the auction site and the seller and explained what her daughter had done. (DigitalJournal)

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