BEYOND CYBERBULLYING

An essential guide for parenting in the digital age

by MICHAEL CARR-GREGG

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New softcover book, 188 pages, previously published as Real Wired Child in 2007, this fully updated edition published 2014.

Be alert but not alarmed - understanding the digital world that your kids inhabit

Is your teenager being bullied online? Has your child adopted a monster? What games are they playing, who are they talking to, and what are they potentially exposing themselves to? Do you really know that they are doing on all those devices?

The internet is fun and fabulous and it's here to stay, but it can pose serious risks for some kids. In this compelling and insightful book, Michael Carr-Gregg explains what kids get up to, provides guidelines for family internet safely and advises how to minimise the risks without limiting your children's freedom to learn, explore and communicate in the all-important cyber world.

Chapters include:

• Internet basics
• What kids are doing online
• Cyberbullying and how to handle it
• Predators and other nasties
• Laws you need to know
• Keeping kids safe online
• Are video games really evil?
• Using the power of the internet for good
• Resources
• References

About the author:

Dr Michael Carr-Gregg was educated in Kenya, England, New Zealand and Australia. In 1985, he founded the world's first national teenage cancer patients support group, CanTeen - The Australian Teenage Cancer Patient's Society. Michael has worked in private practice as a family therapist, child psychologist and clinical psychologist, as an academic, researcher and he spent 4 years working as a political lobbyist. Michael is one of Australia's highest profile psychologists. He is the consultant psychologist to many schools and national organisations, an official ambassador for the federal government's youth suicide prevention programs beyondblue and Mindmatters, and the resident psychologist with Channel Nine's Today Show. He has written several books on parenting adolescents and is a columnist for Girlfriend and Australian Doctor magazines. He has won many awards for his work. He is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour, and as a practising psychologist specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health. His other books include Adolescence - A Guide for Parents, The Princess Bitchface Syndrome, Real Wired Child, Surviving Adolescents , Surviving Year 12 and When to Really Worry .

Most importantly, Michael is married and has two children, supports Hawthorn in the AFL and South Sydney in the NRL. In 2000, he was the subject of a This Is Your Life program on Channel 9. He works in private practice in Melbourne.

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Beyond Cyber Bullying : An essential guide for parenting in the digital age by Michael Carr-Gregg