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Teens and the Technology Dance
Books
Currie, Elliott. The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence.
Mindell, Jodi, and Judith Owens. Take Charge of Your Child’s Sleep: The All-in-One Resource for Solving Sleep Problems in Kids and Teens.
Perlstein, Linda. Not Much Just Chillin’: The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers.
Rawlings, Gregory J. E. Moths to the Flame: The Seduction of Computer Technology.
Walsh, David, and Nat Bennett. WHY Do They Act That Way: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen.
Young, Kimberly. Caught in the Net: How to Recognize the Signs of Internet Addiction.
Websites
www.notmykid.org
www.bewebaware.com
www.webmd.com
www.helpyourteens.com
www.warningsigns.com
MySpace Specific
Books
Dale, Laney. A Parent’s Guide to MySpace.
Farnham, Dale and Kevin. MySpace Safety: 51 Tips for Teens and Parents.
Harris, Marc. MySpace 4 Parents: Learn How to Protect Your Child in MySpace.
Hupfer, Ryan, and Mitch Maxson. MySpace for Dummies.
Magid, Larry, and Anne Collier. MySpace Unraveled: What Is It, How to Use It, and How to Stay Safe.
“Word” Wide Web: Language and the Internet
Books
Burke, David. Street Talk 2: Slang Used by Teens, Rappers, Surfers, & Popular American Television Shows.
Crystal, David. Language and the Internet.
Danet, Brenda, and Susan C. Herring. The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture, and Communication Online.
Holt, Richard. Dialogue on the Internet: Language, Civic Identity, and Computer-Mediated Communication.
Horwitz, Sil. “The Language of the Internet.” An article from PSA Journal.
Myracle, Lauren. TTYL (Talk To You Later). This novel is cleverly written entirely in IM language; it’s a great read on many levels, if not for you then definitely for your teen.
Young, Kenn W. Naz’s Dictionary of Teen Slang.
For Fun
Evslin, Tom. hackoff.com: An Historic Murder Mystery Set in the Internet Bubble and Rubble.
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Socializing in the MySpace Generation
Books
Bargh, John A., and Katelyn Y. A. McKenna. Consequences of the Internet for Self and Society: Is Social Life Being Transformed?
Beane, Allan L. The Bully Free Classroom: Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8.
Ben-Ze’ev, Aaron. Love Online: Emotions on the Internet.
Haythornthwaite, Caroline, and Barry Wellman. The Internet in Everyday Life.
Joinson, Adam N. Understanding the Psychology of Internet Behaviour: Virtual Worlds, Real Lives.
Packer, Alex J. The How Rude! Handbook of Friendship & Dating Manners for Teens: Surviving the Social Scene.
Romain, Trevor. Cliques, Phonies, and Other Baloney.
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Girls’ Aggression.
Valentine, Gill, and Sarah Holloway. Cyberkids: Youth Identities and Communities in an On-line World .
Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence.
Films
A Better Place. Eion Bailey.
Suburbia. Penelope Spheeris.
Angst, Adolescence, and Aggression
Books
Beane, Allan L. The Bully Free Classroom: Over 100 Tips and Strategies for Teachers K-8.
Borba, Michele. Nobody Likes Me, Everybody Hates Me: The Top 25 Friendship Problems and How to Solve Them.
Romain, Trevor. Bullies Are a Pain in the Brain.
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Girls’ Aggression.
Stofel, Robert. Survival Notes for Teens: Inspiration for the Emotional Journey.
Verdick, Elizabeth, and Marjorie Lisovskis. How to Take the Grrr Out of Anger.
Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence.
Websites
www.bullypolice.org
www.kidpower.org
www.stopbullyingnow.com
www.bridgew.edu/marc
www.safeyouth.org
www.pacerkidsagainstbullying.org
www.isafe.org
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The Female Space
Books
Anderson, Kristen. The Truth about Sex by High School Senior Girls.
Barker, Teresa, and JoAnn Deak. Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters.
Brashich, Audrey. All Made Up: A Girl’s Guide to Seeing through Celebrity Hype . . . and Celebrating Real Beauty .
Brown, Lyn Mikel, and Sharon Lamb. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes.
Courtney, Vicki. Teenvirtue: Real Issues, Real Live . . . A Teen Girls’ Survival Guide.
Fass, Paula. The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s.
Gurion, Michael. The Wonder of Girls: Understanding the Hidden Nature of Our Daughters.
Gruver, Nancy. How to Say It to Girls: Communicating with Your Growing Daughter.
Hummel, Patti M. This Is Now: Girl to Girl Devotional for Teens.
Klar, Barry. Citizen Sex: The Girl Next Door on the Adult Internet.
Levin, Diane. “So Sexy So Soon,” a chapter in Childhood Lost.
Levy, Ariel. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.
Machoian, Lisa. The Disappearing Girl: Learning the Language of Teenage Depression.
Peiss, Kathy. Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture.
Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls.
Ponton, Lynn. The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescents.
Schrum, Kelly. Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls’ Culture, 1920–1945 .
Shalit, Wendy. A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue.
Shalit, Wendy. Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It’s Not Bad to Be Good.
Snyderman, Nancy L., and Peg Streep. Girl in the Mirror: Mothers and Daughters in the Years of Adolescence.
Spears, Aubrey, and Chandra Peele. Great Love for Girls: Truth for Teens in Today’s Sexy Culture.
Tarbox, Katherine. A Girl’s Life Online.
Tolman, Deborah. Dilemmas of Desire: Teenage Girls Talk about Sexuality.
Weil, Sabrina. The Real Truth about Teens & Sex: From Hooking Up to Friends with Benefits—What Teens Are Thinking, Doing, Talking about, and How to Help Them Make Smart Choices.
Websites
www.girlscoalition.org
www.girlsinc.org
www.newmoon.org
www.smartgirl.com
www.sistagirls.org
www.withitgirl.com
Organizations
Coalition for Positive Sexuality, www.cps@positive.org
Dads & Daughters, www.dadsanddaughters.org
Third Wave Foundation, www.thirdwavefoundation.org
Advocates for Youth, www.advocatesforyouth.org
Newsletter
Daughters (the newsletter for parents of girls), www.daughters.com
Films
Thirteen. Catherine Hardwicke.
Mean Girls. Mark Waters.
Ghost World. Terry Zwigoff.
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The Boy Space
Books
Brinly, Maryann Bucknum. Oh Boy! Mothers Tell the Truth about Raising Teen Sons.
Currie, Elliott. The Road to Whatever: Middle Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence.
Gurian, Michael. The Good Son: Shaping the Moral Development of Our Boys and Young Men.
Kendall, Lori. Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online.
Kindlon, Dan, and Michael Thompson. Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys.
Kipnis, Aaron. Angry Young Men: How Parents, Teachers, and Counselors Can Help “Bad Boys” Become Good Men .
Middleman, Amy B., and Kate Gruenwald. American Medical Association Boy’s Guide to Becoming a Teen.
Nikkah, John. Our Boys Speak: Adolescent Boys Write about Their Inner Lives.
Pollack, William S., and Todd Shuster. Real Boys’ Voices.
Pope, Harrison G. The Adonis Complex: How to Identify, Treat and Prevent Body Obsession in Men and Boys.
Quinn, Eithne. Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap.
Shaffer, Susan Morris, and Linda Perlman Gordon. Why Boys Don’t Talk—and Why It Matters.
“Getting High” Hopes
Books
DuPont, Robert L. The Selfish Brain: Learning from Addiction.
Emmett, David, and Nice Graeme. Understanding Street Drugs: A Handbook of Substance Misuse for Parents, Teachers, and Other Professionals.
Ensor, Jim. Future Net: The Essential Guide to Internet and Technology Megatrends.
Falkowski, Carol. Dangerous Drugs: An Easy-to-Use Reference for Parents and Professionals.
Folkers, Gladys, and Jeanne Engelmann. Taking Charge of My Mind and Body: A Girls’ Guide to Outsmarting Alcohol, Drug, Smoking, and Eating Problems.
Gordon, Dianna. Surfing for Drugs: Internet Pharmacies Have Proliferated, Offering Consumers Cheap, Mail-Order Drugs.
Kuhn, Cynthia. Just Say Know: Talking with Kids about Drugs and Alcohol.
Marshall, Michael and Shelly. Ready, Aim, Inspire: Targeting Your Teen’s Drug Crisis, with a Focus on Solutions, Not Blame.
Monroe, Judy. Inhalant Drug Dangers.
Palmiero, Karen. 90 Ways to Keep Your Kids Drug Free.
Ponton, Lynn. The Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do.
Rogers, Peter D., and Lea Goldstein. Drugs and Your Kid: How to Tell If Your Child Has a Drug/Alcohol Problem and What to Do about It.
Rosengren, John. Big Book Unplugged: A Young Person’s Guide to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Schwebel, Robert. Saying No Is Not Enough—Helping Your Kids Make Wise Decisions about Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs.
VanVonderen, Jeff. Good News for the Chemically Dependent and Those Who Love Them.
Websites, Pamphlets, and Organizations
www.theantidrug.com
www.laanidroga.com (Spanish)
www.teachersguide.org
www.theantidrug.com/ParentsatWork
www.theantidrug.com/Faith
www.drugstory.org
www.mediacampaign.org
www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov
www.helpyourcommunity.org
www.findtreatment.samhsa.gov
www.health.org
www.nida.nih.gov
www.freevibe.com
Make a Difference: Talk to Your Child about Alcohol (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). www.niaaa.hig.gov or call 1.800.487.4889
Keeping Youth Drug-Free (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention). www.samhsa.gov or call 1.800.729.6686
For a description of effective school and community drug-abuse-prevention programs and strategies, you can also visit http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov.
Films
Brick. Rian Johnson.
Traffic. Benicio Del Toro.
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Raising Today’s Teens
Books
Hagelin, Rebecca. Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture That’s Gone Stark Raving Mad.
Levy, Ariel. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.
Schuster, Mark, and Justin Richardson. Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know about Sex (But Were Afraid They’d Ask): The Secrets to Surviving Your Child’s Sexual Development.
Glasser, William. For Parents and Teenagers: Dissolving the Barrier between You and Your Teen.
Godfrey, Neale S., and Rhett. The Teen Code: How to Talk to Them about Sex, Drugs, and Everything Else—Teenagers Reveal What Works Best.
Grigsby, Connie, and Kent Julian. How to Get Your Teen to Talk to You.
Paterson, Kathy. Every Adult’s Guide to Talking to Teens.
Patnaik, Gayatri, and Michelle T. Shineski. The Secret Life of Teens: Young People Speak Out about Their Lives.
Peterson, Jean Sunde. The Essential Guide to Talking with Teens: Ready-to-Use Discussions for School and Youth Groups.
Rainey, Barbara, and Bruce Nygren. Parenting Today’s Adolescent: Helping Your Child Avoid the Traps of the Preteen and Teen Years.
Taffel, Ron, and Melinda Blau. The Second Family: Dealing with Peer Power, Pop Culture, the Wall of Silence—and Other Challenges of Raising Today’s Teens.
White, Joe, and Nicholas Comninellis. Nine Things Teens Should Know & Parents Are Afraid to Talk About.
For Fun
Kaplan, Jeffrey P., and Abby M. Lederman. Finding the Path: A Novel for Parents of Teenagers.
Keeping Kids Safe
Books
Phillips, Antoinette. Families Talk—A Manual for Parents—Discussing Danger and Personal Safety with Children.
Roddel, Victoria. Internet Safety Family Guide.
Sullivan, Detective Mike. Safety Monitor: How to Protect Your Kids Online.
Freeh, Louis J. A Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety. FBI Publications (PDF): www.fbi.gov/publications/pguide/pguidee.htm.
Drake, Elizabeth. 50 Plus One Tips to Preventing Identity Theft.
Frangos, Amber. No Child Is Safe: From Internet Crime.
Roche, Steve. Protect Your Children from Internet and Mobile Phone Dangers: An Easy-to-Understand Handbook for Worried Mums.
Silver Lake Editors. Scams & Swindles: Phishing, Spoofing, ID Theft, Nigerian Advance Schemes Investment Frauds: How to Recognize and Avoid Rip-Offs in the Internet Age.
DVD / CD-ROM / Video
Aarniokoski, Douglas. “The Safe Side—Internet Safety.” (DVD)
U.S. Government. 2006 Essential Guide to Protection from Identity Theft—Federal Information on Financial and Cyber Security, Online Safety, Internet Scams, Web and Email Phishing. (CD-ROM)
“Internet and Street Smarts: Safety Tips for Kids.” (VHS)
Websites
@chead:MySpace-specific:
www.myspacesafetytips.com
www.mycrimespace.com
www.commonsensemedia.org
Parent Guides to the Internet
www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet
www.learnthenet.com
www.ctw.org/parents/techtips
www.webopedia.com
www.safekids.com/parent_guidelines.htm
www.bewebaware.com
www.blogsafety.com
www.socialshield.com
www.isafe.org
www.benetsafe.com
www.missingkids.com
www.netfamilynews.org
www.netsmartz.org
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Online Safety for Kids
www.livewires.com
www.netsmartz.org
www.safekids.com
www.webwisekids.com
www.wiredkids.org
www.tcs.cybertipline.com
www.teencentral.net
www.teenlineonline.org
Government and Law Enforcement Agencies
U.S. Department of Justice, www.cybercrime.gov
Federal Bureau of Investigation, www.fbi.gov
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, www.missingkids.com
National Sex Offender Registries
www.prevent-abuse-now.com/register.htm (U.S.)
www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/techops/nsor/index_e.htm (Canada)
MySpace
MySpace.com
1223 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 402
Santa Monica, CA 90403-5406
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