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While there are a number of books related to this topic, here are a few that we have read, or that have been recently recommended to us:
- Seeking Balance : The online lives of children & adolescents by McCleese & McCleese
- BEYOND STRANGER DANGER: Parental Control and Privacy Strategies to Protect Your Digital Child by Darcy Mayers
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While there are a number of books related to this topic, here are a few that we have read, or that have been recently recommended to us:
- Racing to Keep Up: Talking with your kids about technology use and strategies to protect the home computer by M. Monroe and D. Fodeman
- Generation Text: Raising Well Adjusted Kids in an Age of Instant Everything by Michael Osit
- Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kids Childhood in a Grow-Up Too Fast World by Marybeth Hicks
- Guarding Kids.com: A Practical Guide to Keeping Kids Out of High-Tech Trouble by Dr. Russell Sabella
- Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax
Shoulder-to-Shoulder or Face-to-Face - In his book Why Gender Matters, Dr Leonard Sax says that boys and girls have a fundamentally different approach to life's activities. He says that boys stand "shoulder to shoulder" and girls prefer "face to face." Boys build relationships around activities that they are focused upon (shoulder-to-shoulder looking at the activity together). Girls use activities as an excuse to talk to each other (face-to-face), and the talking and sharing is the basis of their relationships. Boys do not need or even want much talking -- it can be a distraction.
(excerpt taken from http://drfrahm.blogspot.com/2008/03/shoulder-to-shoulder-or-face-to-face.html)