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Sue Scheff, founder of P.U.R.E.™, latest articles in various publications around the web and media outlets:
- Real Crisis of Teen Mental Health
- Study: COVID Impact On Teen’s Mental Health
- What Parents Can Learn from Paris Hilton’s Experiences in Residential Therapy
- Preventing Your Teen From Becoming a Cyberbully
- Help Your Teen Develop a Healthy Relationship with Technology
- Good Teens Making Bad Choices During COVID
- Bullying, Suicide and Youth
- Help! My Teen is Sexting!
- Safe Sexting Education Tips
- Study: Sexting Awareness Should Start Early
- The Link Between Social Media and Teen Depression
- Talking to Boys About the Risks of Sexting
- 3 Ways Parents Can Help Teens Build Cyber-Muscle
- How to Talk to Your Teen About Sexting
- Digital Resilience Toolkit: Handling Cyberbullying
- What Freshman Need to Know
- Why Online Public Shaming Shouldn’t Be A Parent Tool
- Why Removing Devices Doesn’t Always Work
- Why Shaming Teens Should Be Part of Parenting
- 16 Books Every Teenager Should Read
- 7 Signs Social Media Is Making You Sad
- Best Books to Give Your 2019 Graduate
- Should You Tell Your Son If You Don’t Like Their Friend?
- Parenting in the Digital Age: Dealing with Cyberbullying
- Name-Calling Hasn’t Changed, It’s Online Now: Ways to Combat Cyberbullying
- How Social Media Contributes to Teen Depression
- Cyberbullying: How Social Connectedness May Help Victims
- Best Parenting Books 2018
- Teens and the Fire Challenge
- The Graduation Message Kids Need to Hear
- 5 Simple Ways Teens Can Make Sure Their Social Media Is Interview Ready
- Teens Are Frustrated by the Problems Smartphones Cause
- Sexting Scandals, Slut Pages, Nudes: What Teens Are Facing Today
- Book Chats for Parents and Teens on Internet Safety and Cyberbullying
- Talk to Teens About Online Shaming
- The Risk and Rewards of Becoming Internet Famous
- 5 Tips for Building Digital Resilience for Teens
- Preventing Cyberbullying
- Holiday Gifts for Teens
- The Normalcy of Sexting Among Teens
- Surprising Way To Help Children & Adults Harness Empathy
- Sexting Scandals & Shame: What Teens Are Facing Online Today
- Digital Wisdom: The Art of Online Survival
- Online Hate Shame: The Emotional Ramifications
- Teens and Social Media: Building Their Social Authority
- CyberParenting: Are Your Actions Helping or Hurting Your Kids?
- How Internet Postings Are Emotionally Affecting Your Day
- When A Wall Becomes a Teachable Moment
- The Impact of Cyberbullying on Youth
- Let’s Be Real: An Honest Approach to Teen Living
- Summer Flings: Helping Teens Understand Healthy Relationships
- Why Parents Need To Be Better Students
- Bullying and Cyberbullying: Mean, Rude or Bullying?
- October Brings Awareness to Cyberbullying and Medicine Abuse
- Expert Tips: Creating Cyber-Mentors to End Bullying
- Why Are Kids Bystanders Rather Than Upstanders?
- Moral Courage and Teens
- Art of Commenting
- Sex Hasn’t Changed: Our Culture Has
- Digital Shaming: You Are Only A Click Away
- Protecting Your Teen From Being Catfished
- Impress Your College Admissions With An UnSelfie Digital Presence
- Can the Internet Ruin Your Life? 5 Tips to Help You Avoid Online Trouble
- Catfishing: Teens Falling for Fake Online Identities
- Teens, Cyberbullying, Sexual Harassment & Social Media: The New Normal?
- Fake Friends, Fake Boys, Fake Love: “Identity Crisis” of Online Fakers
- Be A CyberAdvocate To A Friend
- DigiWishes: Becoming A Cyber-Advocate
- Understanders On the Rise For Bullying Prevention Month
- Must Read for Parents of Daughters on YouTube
- Do Parents Have a Right to Post Their Kids Photo’s Online?
- Keep Your Child and Teen Cyber-Safe
- Cyberbullying: Two Thirds of Adults Reported Digital Abuse
- Your Child’s Online Behavior Is a Reflection of Offline Parenting
- Click or Treat: A Parent’s Role in Social Media
- Facing Reality: Cyberbullying Is Not a Fad, It’s a Trend
- Harvard Making Education a Priority for Everyone
- Being a Cyber-Mentor: A Role Model for All Ages
- Hackers Prey on Teens With YouTube’s RAT Infestation: Selling Slaves
- Teen Girls and Leadership Biases: What Parents Should Know
- How Social Media Helps Transcend Grief
- Teens and Digital Wisdom: Give Them A Round of Applause
- Are You A Parent Or A ‘Sharent’?
- Teens Have Figured It Out, Have Parents?
- When Your College Teen Is Home For the Summer
- Summer Months Bring High Death Rate for Teen Drivers
- Don’t Let Cyberbullying Ruin Fitness
- Teens, Technology & Social: What To Be Aware Of
- Talking to Kids About Legal Marijuana
- Interview with Sue Scheff from MizWhiz Tech Trends for Women
- The 5-Step Digital Detox
- Building Your Digital Parenting Skills
- Social Media Behavior Matters
- Cyberbullying Is Not a Joke: How Celebrities and Public Figures Can Make a Difference
- Why Social Media Behavior Matters to Teens
- Parents: Check Your Online Behavior
- No One Is Immune to Online Shaming, Cyberbullying and Peer Cruelty
- It’s Not Only Youth, Parents Love Social Media Too
- New Surveys: Grown-ups Love Social Media and Cyberbullying Top Concern For Parents
- Judgy Moms and Dads Face Off In a Hit Ad
- Put That iPhone Down: And 14 Other Digital Resolutions for 2015
- Digital Citizenship Is As Important As Potty Training: Let’s Start Cyber Civics Classes In All Schools
- Snap And Share With Care This Holiday Season
- Respecting Age Restrictions and Privacy Policies: Online Safety and Your Children
- What if you don’t like your kids’ friends? – CNN Living
- It’s Revealed: Cyberbullying and Online Cruelty Is Not Only Child’s Play
- Separating Fact From Fiction In The Digital World
- #TakeNoBullies Campaign Spreading Positive Messages in Negative Spaces
- Teens & Screens: Do You Know Who See’s What Online?
- Watching Over My Tween’s Instagram Account
- Keeping Up With Our Digital Teens Behind the Screens
- Are You Oversharing on Social Media?
- Short Chats Are Better Than No Chats
- Making Caring Common: Why Parents Should Lead By Example
- Bullying and Bigotry: Being Judged for Something Out of Your Control
- Teaching Your Teen How To Be A Smart Cyber-Citizen
- #ENDBULLYING, A Message That Starts With Us
- First Day of School Photos and Social Media: Ripe Pickings for Child Porn
- Building a Digital Dialogue and Relationship with Our Kids
- Back to School: Inspiring a Caring School Year When Study Reveals Kindness Is Taking a Backseat
- Back to School: Teens and Digital Stress
- Teens & Screens Part 2: Cyberbullying
- Parent Bullying: The One-Upper Society
- Teens & Screens Part 1: Raising Cyber Smart Citizens in Social Media
- Harvard Says, Teach Teenagers To Think Before They Post (Your Teen Magazine)
- Teens Building Their Digital Trail During the Summer: Summertime Blogs
- A Caring Teen Online Starts Offline with a Caring Parent (Harvard’s Making Caring Common Project)
- Finding Time to Care for Others: It Starts With Us (Harvard’s Making Caring Common Project)
- Not My Teen: Trends to Know – Teens, Medicine Abuse and Their Friends
- Google and YouTube: Stolen Lives Deserve More Than Flag Alerts
- Teens and Screens: The Breakdown of Digital Parenting
- Google+: A Playground for Predators? What Parents Need to Know
- The Three C’s Your Teen Needs to Know
- Cyber Restrictions: When Teen Abuses Their Digital Privileges
- Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Give the Gift of a Digital Lesson
- Google Apps for Education Behind the Screens
- Take the Power Out of Bullying: Bystander Revolution
- Cyberbullying and Medicine Abuse: The Sobering Connection
- Google Apps for Education: Teachers and the Unsuspected Stranger
- Digital Parenting Should Include Google Apps for Education
- Google Apps for Education: Data Mining and the Threat to Student Privacy
- Grownup Bullying and Monster Moms
- Teens’ Virtual Playground and the Giant
- Cyberbullying Protection: Coaches Reaching Out to Be a Cyber-Arm
- The Cost of Internet Defamation
- Our Children Are Our Future: How Communities Can Make a Difference
- #iCANHELP Delete Negativity on Social Media: A Wave of Positive Warriors
- Anti-Bullying Librarian Reaches Her Community Through Magic
- Cyberbullying Protection: Librarians As Cyber-Arms
- Cell Phone Rules for Teens
- Winter Break, Spring Break: No Break for Online Reputation
- When Safety Trumps Privacy: SNOOP
- Sext Education: Sexting = Cyberbullying
- Digital Resolutions for Parents
- Does Your Teen Have a Fake Facebook Profile?
- What the Holidays Mean to Mean: The Gift of Presence via DrGreene.com
- Cyberbullies Don’t Take Holidays Off: Words Wound
- Your Online Reputation Doesn’t Take Holidays Off
- Give the Gift of Digital Presence
- E-Venge: Selfies, Revenge Porn, Teens and Cyberbullying
- StopMedicineAbuse: Teens and Online Pharmacies
- Cyber-Safety Series on DrGreene.com
- The Kids Are Watching More Than Screens
- Girls Above Society with Lauren Galley
- GalTime: Why Our Kids Should Be CyberMentors with Katie L. Greer
- Back to School Doesn’t Mean Back to Bullying
- Parenting TodayKids: Recess on the Cyberbullying Playground is Perilous for T(w)eens and Kids
- Sue Scheff Series on DrGreene.com
- Sue Scheff Blog Listed in Top 20 Parenting Blogs and Websites
- Be CyberWise: How to Be a Cyber-Wise Parent & Role Model
- The Huffington Post: Bullies and CyberbulliesDon’t Take a Summer Vacation
- GalTime: Good Kids, Bad Choices: When Parents Reach Wit’s End
- Hey Mom and Dad, What Does the Internet Say About You?
- Stop-Bullies.com: The Importance of Talking to Your Kids About How to Keep Your Personal Info Safe Online (PDF)
- ParentingTodaysKids.com: Why Anger on the Internet is Bad for You (and Your Kids!)
- SchoolFamily.com: Expert Sue Scheff Offers Parents 10 Tips to Help Prevent Teen Drug Addiction
- GalTime: 10 Tips To Prevent Teen Drug/Substance Abuse
Media rounds…..
- Becoming A Cyber-Advocate – FOSI
- Upstanders On The Rise for Bullying Prevention Month – Cyberwise
- Must Read for Parents With Daughters on YouTube – Bright Girls Company
- Keep Your Child and Teen Cyber-Safe – CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention) Podcast and article
- Do Parents Have a Right to Post Their Kids Photo Online? – VProud.tv
- Your Child’s Online Behavior Is a Reflection of Offline Parenting – Education Nation
- Click or Treat: A Parent’s Role in Social Media – Connect Safely
- Could Facebook ‘Dislike’ Button Backfire On Teens? – CNN Digital Parents
- Being A Cyber-Mentor: A Role Model for All Ages – Gaggle
- Are You A Parent Or A ‘Sharent’? Connect Safely
- Teens Have Figured It Out, Have Parents? Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI)
- When Your College Kids Are Home For The Summer – Partnership for Drug Free Kids
- Teens, Technology & Social Media: What To Be Aware Of – Stop Medicine Abuse
- Talking to Kids About Legal Marijuana – CNN Parents
- Interview with Sue Scheff by MizWhiz Tech Trend for Women
- The 5-Step Digital Detox – Safe Bee
- Building Your Digital Parenting Skills – Everyday Parenting
- Social Media Behavior Matters – Good Digital Parenting
- Why Social Media Behavior Matters To Teens – Ten to Twenty Parenting
- Parents: Check Your Online Behavior – Connect Safely
- No One Is Immune to Online Shaming, Cyberbullying and Peer CrueltyIt’s Not
- Only Youth, Parents Love Social Media Too – Family Online Safety Institute, Good Digital Parenting
- Digital Citizenship Is As Important As Potty Training: Let’s Start Cyber Civics Classes In All Schools – Dr. Greene
- Judgy Moms and Dads Face Off In a Hit Ad – CNN Living
- Put That iPhone Down: And 14 Other Digital Resolutions for 2015 – CNN Living
- Talk to Teens About Being Responsible on Social Media – US News
- What if you don’t like your kids’ friends? – CNN Living
- Why are we quick to pick apart Renee Zellwegers looks? – CNN Living
- Sue Scheff Helps Parents of Struggling Teens – Career Thoughts
- New study highlights prevalence of online harassment – Deseret News/KTAR.com
- #AlexFromTarget: a victim or beneficiary of Internet fame? – National Deseret News
- Cyberbullying Twitter Chat – Digital Citizen’s Alliance
- OpEd: Gossiping On Facebook – Breaking Belize News
- Telling kids about your past: Would you tell your kids you got high? – CNN Living
- 10 Secret Weapons for More Confident Digital Parenting – McAfee
- Parents, beware of bullying on sites you’ve never seen – CNN Living
- Should Parents Vacation Without the Kids? – Today Moms
- Kids Using Apps Like Ask.fm, Kik to Cyberbully – CNN Living
- No Such Thing as a Bully: Shred the Label – uKnowKids
- School Bullying Prevention Difference Maker – CPI
- Student suspended for sexual harassment after hugging teacher – CNN Living
- Books by Five Fierce Women: Cherie Currie, Kelly Cutrone, Melissa Febos, Chris O’Dell, and Sue Scheff – Huffington Post
- Google Bomb – When life is plagued by cyber-slamming (Interview with Sue Scheff) – Digital Journal
- $11.3 Million Sue Scheff Defamation Judgment Confirmed on Appeal – Traverse Internet Law
- Understanding Internet Defamation – IBLS
- Calling In Pros to Refine Your Google Image – Washington Post
- Google-Proof PR? – Forbes
- Web can ruin reputation with stroke of a key – San Francisco Chronicle
- Why you Should Spy on Yourself – Wall Street Journal
- Caught in the net (By Taylor Atkins – The Capital-Journal)
- Unwelcome attention invading MySpace.com – Denver Post
- Editorial: Free speech has its limits – TCPalm.com
- Watch What Your Post – AARP Bulletin Magazine
- Shock Waves From Google Bombs – Kathleen Parker Washington Post
- Calling In Pros to Refine Your Google Image via Washington Post
- Bloggers test limits of free speech – Cape Cod Times
- Top 10 Parenting Quick Tips of 2009, by Sue Scheff – Education.com
- Internet Revenge Sites Challenge the Theory ‘No Press Is Bad Press’ Is Bad Press’ – ABC News
- Mom’s experiences with residential programs for troubled teens chronicled in “Wit’s End” – The Patriot Ledger
- Sue Scheff Celebrates A Decade Of Helping Families With Troubled Teens
- Interview with Sue Scheff: How to treat troubled teens – CNN InSession (Video)
- Sue Scheff Celebrates A Decade Of Helping Families With Troubled Teens
- Mom’s experiences with residential programs for troubled teens chronicled in “Wit’s End’”
- Weston mom writes a book about her struggles with teen daughter – Florida Sun Sentinel
- Weston Mother Helps Other Parents – Miami Herald
- New Book Recounts Harrowing Ordeal with Struggling Teen – Market Wired
- Weston mom writes a book about her struggles with teen daughter
- Sue Scheff (Founder of Parents’ Universal Resource Experts – P.U.R.E.) and Author of “Wit’s End!” Applauds the GAO Hearings on “Child Abuse and Deceptive Marketing by Residential Programs for Teens.“
- Parent Advocate Sue Scheff Announces Release Date for New Book, “Wits End!” Out Early 2008
Sue Scheff’s latest contributions to Huffington Post:
- Teens, Cyberbullying, Sexual Harassment and Social Media: The New Normal?
- Fake Friends, Fake Boys, Fake Love: “Identity Crisis” of Online Fakers
- Cyberbullying: Two Thirds of Adults Reported Digital Abuse
- Facing Reality: Cyberbullying Is Not a Fad, It’s a Trend
- Harvard Making a Education a Priority for Everyone
- Hackers Prey on Teens With YouTube’s ‘RAT’ Infestation: Selling Slaves
- Teen Girls and Leadership Bias: What Parents Should Know
- How Social Media Helps Transcend Grief
- Teens and Digital Wisdom: Give Them A Round of Applause
- Summer Months Bring Higher Death Rate for Teens Driver
- Don’t Let Cyberbullying Ruin Fitness
- Cyberbullying Is Not a Joke: How Celebrities and Public Figures Can MakeADifference
- No One Is Immune to Online Shaming, Cyberbullying and Peer Cruelty
- New Surveys: Grown-ups Love Social Media and Cyberbullying Top Concern For Parents
- Respecting Age Restrictions and Privacy Policies: Online Safety and Your Children
- It’s Revealed: Cyberbullying and Online Cruelty Is Not Only Child’s Play
- Separating Fact From Fiction In The Digital World
- Online Safety: What Does It Mean To You?
- #TakeNoBullies Campaign Spreading Positive Messages in Negative Spaces
- Are You Oversharing on Social Media?
- Bullying and Bigotry: Being Judged for Something Out of Your Control
- #ENDBULLYING, A Message That Starts With Us
- First Day of School Photos and Social Media: Ripe Pickings for Child Porn
- Back to School: Inspiring a Caring School Year When Study Reveals Kindness Is Taking a Backseat
- Back to School: Teens and Digital Stress
- Parent Bullying: The One-Upper Society
- A Caring Teen Online Starts Offline with a Caring Parent (Harvard’s Making Caring Common Project)
- Finding Time to Care for Others: It Starts With Us (Harvard’s Making Caring Common Project)
- Google and YouTube: Stolen Lives Deserve More Than Flag Alerts
- Teens and Screens: The Breakdown of Digital Parenting
- Google+: A Playground for Predators? What Parents Need to Know
- Cyber Restrictions: When Teen Abuses Their Digital Privileges
- Take the Power Out of Bullying: Bystander Revolution
- Digital Parenting Should Include Google Apps for Education
- Google Apps for Education: Data Mining and the Threat to Student Privacy
- Grownup Bullying and Monster Moms
- Teens’ Virtual Playground and the Giant
- Cyberbullying Protection: Coaches Reaching Out to Be a Cyber-Arm
- The Cost of Internet Defamation
- #iCANHELP Delete Negativity on Social Media: A Wave of Positive Warriors
- Anti-Bullying Librarian Reaches Her Community Through Magic
- Cyberbullying Protection: Librarians As Cyber-Arms
- Sext Education: Sexting = Cyberbullying
- Tips To Know If Your Teen Has a Fake Facebook Account
- Cyberbullies Don’t Take Holidays Off: Words Wound
- Your Online Reputation Doesn’t Take Holidays Off
- E-Venge: Selfies, Revenge Porn, Teens and Cyberbullying
- Adult Bullying: Harassment By People You Respect
- Cyberbullying: Avoiding Tragedies With Community Cyber-Shields
- Submit the Documentary: The Reality of Cyberbullying
- The Best Answer to Cyberbullying We Have Seen Yet
- Are You Ready For Google Glass? 3 Tips to Keep Your Kids Safe
- How Teachers Can Help Create Cyber-Shields for Their Students
- Accidental Bullying and Cyberbullying
- Facebook Is Not A Diary
- ReTweet Family Values At Home and Online
- Be Aware: The Dangers of Food Allergy Bullying
- Creating A Cyber-Shield Through Parenting and Awareness
- Empowering and Inspiring Teen Girls to #TakeNoBulliesThis Summer
- The Huffington Post: Online Reputation Management Is Finally Being Recognized by Teens
- The Huffington Post: Google Glass: A Wink Away from Stranger Danger?
- The Huffington Post: Bullies and Cyberbullies Don’t Take a Summer Vacation
- Smile, Snap, Click and Post (or Not): Graduation and Prom Party Digital Drama
- FootprintsSpring Break, Teens, and Online Reputation
- Catfish: Why Parents Need To Discuss It With Their Teens
- Google Apps: Saving Schools Money or Paying With Your Kid’s Privacy?
- Why Are More Teens Turning to Tumblr?
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