Guest Blogger
Sue Scheff
Sue Scheff is an author and Parent Advocate. She founded Parents' Universal Resource Experts, Inc in 2001. Her expertise is educating parents that are struggling with their out-of-control teenager and Internet safety for both kids and adults. In her book, Wit's End! Advice and Resources for Saving Your Out-of-Control Teen, (Health Communications, Inc), Sue Scheff journals her own difficulties with her teen, as well as offers prescriptive advice for parents at their wit's end. After being victimized online and cyber-stalked due to her advocacy work, Sue Scheff won a landmark case for Internet Defamation and Invasion of Privacy. Since then, her name and voice has become synonymous with helping others that are being destroyed virtually as well as educating kids and adults about their online reputation. In her book, Google Bomb! How the $11.3M Verdict Changed the Way We Use the Internet (HCI), co-authored by the late John Dozier, Sue Scheff's story is untangled. Like her previous book, Google Bomb also offers the prescriptive advice to help others.
As a Parent Advocate, Sue Scheff believes that parenting teens today is a challenge and parents need all the help and resources they can get. An educated parent is a prepared parent.
Sue Scheff is a contributor for the Huffington Post, Parenting Today's Kids, Education.com, School Family, GalTime, A Platform for Good, and others. She has been featured on ABC 20/20, CNN, Fox News, Anderson Cooper, Nightly News with Katie Couric, The Rachael Ray Show, Dr. Phil, and many more. Scheff has also been in USA Today, LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, AARP, Miami Herald just to name a few.
For more from Sue Scheff:
Facebook: facebook.com/troubledteenshelp
Twitter: @suescheff
Blogsite: suescheffblog.com
Sites: helpyourteens.com and suescheff.com
Books: googlebombbook.com and witsendbook.com
Hooked On Cyber-Life: When Screen Time Replaces Family Time
Digital addiction. I always hear about how parents believe their kids or teens are addicted to the Internet and especially their cell phones. The word addiction is usually related to substance abuse, however within today’s tech world, we are hearing more and more about “Internet addiction.” Internet addiction can include a wide variety of behaviors [...]
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Being a Social Media Role Model and Mentor
I often talk about parents and their part in leading by example, both online and off. Children are very impressionable and will often mimic their parents’ habits—good and bad. Since online behavior has real world effects, parents must focus on demonstrating respectful digital citizenship to their children. Parents used to just puzzle over their teens’ [...]
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There Is No Rewind Button on the Internet: Pause to Think Before You Post
What you share is as important as how you share it. Over sharing is an area that both kids and adults can be guilty of. It is important to understand what is appropriate and what crosses the line, digitally speaking. A good challenge that is often heard is the Grandma Rule: “If it is something [...]
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Making the World-Wide-Web Your Friend
Building a positive online reputation (digital footprint) should be a requirement of owning a computer. Every keystroke counts. It is as simple as that. There will come a time when just about everything we do in life is recorded and we won’t have to go any further than our screen (whether it is a tablet, [...]
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Smile, You Are On the World-Wide-Web
Yes, within seconds your life can go viral. A simple click of a mouse or tap of a keypad and your digital world is soaring through cyberspace. The Internet is one of the greatest educational tools yet at the same time we can also say it is not always accurate. Internet fact verses Internet fiction—Yes, [...]
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