Chatroulette: A new fad among students

Just saw this on yahoo…wanted to pass it along…Chatroulette Watch it here Basically people can visit random peoples webcams and chat!  Scary thought huh?  What’s your initial reaction to this? UPDATE FEB. 24th: Just found this article about Chatroulette…a little more detail or understanding of the site and its consequences…here is the article

Do you know what your teen is texting?

Did you know that there are currently more than 2,000 texting abbreviations? (LOL, TTYL, NSFW)  And there are more created each day as students look for new ways to shorten messages and give them a cryptic code so there parents have no idea what they are talking about. It is so tough to stay in [...]

P.O.D.- Parent Open Discussion Monday March 9th

Parenting.  It has to be one of the most complicated responsibilities known to man. And the only way to learn is through on the job training.  Through your screw ups, through your successes, and just by keeping at it when you want to give up. Well, what if I told you there were other people [...]

Cross Current Time Change

Connection.  Dictionary.com defines connection as a circle of friends or associated or a member of such a circle.  Being connected can do so much for a person.  Take our church for example. Being connected at Sycamore Creek Church lets you know that when things are rough, you have people there to help.  And when things [...]

Alco-pops

Can you tell which of these drinks are alcohol? For those of you who may not be aware, underage drinking in the Pickerington area is a huge deal.  In fact, a lot of time the police just can’t handle the amount of alcohol with minors issues they have. An interesting marketing trend is starting to [...]

8 Things you Didn’t Know about Teens

Just came across this blog today : On Teens Today.  Don’t know if I would agree with everything on the site, but one thing I do like:  They have a bunch of different teen authors.  The site is designed to help parents understand their teen a little better.  And who better to do this than [...]

Is Cyber-bullying a big issue?

Interesting article by the Wall Street Journal on the dangers of Cyber-Bullying.  You should check it out.

2008 Medical Release Form

If you or your student have not completed a 2008 Medical Release Form, you will need to do so before the Mud Pit tomorrow night.  Here is the form: 2008 Medical Release Form

30 hour Famine Event Info

Many of the students have signed up to participate in the 30-hour famine this weekend.  I thought I should post the information about the event.  I gave students a postcard with all the info on it on Sunday and am posting that card here so parents can have all the info.  If you have any [...]

Reactive or Proactive

Let me start by saying I don’t know where this will end up.  But I want to talk about parenting for a little bit. Are you a reactive parent or a proactive parent?  You probably have never thought about it that way before.  Let me try to explain it this way. If you are a [...]