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More Than a Game
The Deer Lakes Hockey Club, with the blessing and support of the Rupprecht Family, is once again hosting the Annual Maura C. Rupprecht Memorial Alumni Game. The game is being held with a bigger purpose – to provide more mental health support and suicide prevention services to our youth.
Screen-Free Gifts
You may be looking for that perfect screen-free gift for a child, grandchild, niece or nephew.
“Tumblr Will Once Again Allow Nudity, But Not Porn”
Recently Tumblr changed it’s policy on nudity. I’m not sure how this will evolve, but it could easily become an interest of youth again as it was in 2018 as an easy access (and free) site/platform to find sexual content.
How can we raise media literate kids?
I highly encourage reading this and becoming familiar with (digital) media literacy. We have to teach our kids to be critical thinkers!!
“Sexual Predators Are Grooming Young Teens On Wattpad, A Storytelling App Beloved By Gen Z”
Read about the struggles Wattpad has with predators online and the overall failing of the platform to remove those stalking youth who use this site.