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When your teen asks to have friends to sleep over – maybe after a party – or asks to sleep over at a friend’s with a group of other teens, your first response may be a downright NO. Visions of out-of-control drinking, drug taking or unprotected sex probably flash through your mind.
For most of us, living with a teen can often feel like a stranger has moved in. The long summer holidays can be a particularly tense time, when teens want to kick back and relax after end of term exams. They want to sleep in late and party till the small hours with their mates. You may feel you’re drowning in their mess. So, what do you do?
We spoke to parents to find out what they thought about their teen's use of the computer and going online. Find out what they had to say here...
Should you get to know your teen’s mates – or is that interfering?
Do you fear your child’s computer use is out of control? Read on for help…
Golden Gaming Rules for parents
Read a parent's story about their child's addiction to online gaming
Increasingly, more grown-up kids are living at home in their twenties and thirties. Many leave college or university heavily in debt and that, taken with the high cost of borrowing, means many are taking far longer to be in a position to buy their own home. So where else can they live but with mum and dad?
The government’s Home Access scheme puts computer learning within reach of every family
There has been a surge in the number of users – young and old, on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook and Bebo - increasingly over the last couple of years. 49% of children aged 8-17 have an online profile according to Ofcom, who carried out a social networking survey on 5,000 adults and more than 3,000 children.
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