by Lynette Owens
Week of July 15, 2013
Welcome to our inaugural What We’re Reading update! To help you keep up with what’s going on with kids, families, schools, and technology, we’ll compile a list of interesting stories our team’s been reading over the past week. What have you been reading? Tell us below or Tweet @TrendISKF
- NEW STUDY: Teens who friend their parents feel closer to them in real life. Yes, really!
- NEW TECH: Are Your Children Using Snapchat? If you didn’t know, SnapChat came out with an under 13 version of their photo sharing app a few weeks ago. Why this version, called SnapKidz, is useless.
- HELPFUL TIPS: The Center on Media and Child Health at the Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital offers 6 ways to help your kids stay healthy this summer.
- HELPFUL TIPS: If your kids are using your iPad much more this summer, see these easy tips on making tablets safe for kids from Cool Mom Tech.
See you next week!
Lynette Owens is Vice President of Consumer Education & Marketing at Trend Micro and Founder of the company's signature Internet Safety for Kids and Families program. With 30+ years in the tech industry, Lynette oversees global initiatives to help deliver the technology tools and education that people of all ages need to keep themselves and their families safe online. She serves on the advisory boards of the Identity Theft Resource Center's Alliance for Identity Resilience, the Global Anti-Scam Alliance, and INHOPE.