Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online

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(4 stars) - Totally Wired
This book gives the reader an in depth view of what school children have access to via computer, cell phones, pagers, etc. A must for parents to read and understand.

(5 stars) - Excellent Resource on a Difficult Subject
Speaking as a Middle School Counselor dealing with cyber-bullying issues on an almost daily basis, this book is a wonderful resource to me. A major frustration to me in doing research on this has been the sheer volume of "resources" out there that completely miss the point. Treating cyberspace as if it isn't "real" and so forth - ask the average 8th grader how "real" their myspace is. This is an excellent book with a very realistic approach to a very serious issue, and I look forward to being far more proactive on this in the coming school year. If you work with teens, this book should be required reading.

(2 stars) - don't agree
I don't agree with authors solutions to certain issues. I don't think that just because one thing was different twenty years ago it's good or bad. The author haven't got an idea of what education should be.

(5 stars) - Totally Useful
If you have teens in your life, you need to read Totally Wired. Goodstein de-mystifies text messaging and social networking, offers common-sense advice on how to manage the security concerns about your teens online time, and provides a `cheat sheet' to help us interpret what's really going on in our teenagers' world.

The best part is that Goodstein really gets teens. Drawing analogies to things that were familiar to us from our youth, she helps us understand that MySpace is really just another place to hang out, that personalizing your own online page is a way for teens to express themselves just as I did by hanging posters in my room or pinning buttons to my denim jacket, and that many teens do need parents to help them understand the boundaries, both offline and online. Reading this book made me remember how much fun it was to be a teenager myself (in between all the drama). And I came away with a new sense of respect for the choices that today's far more empowered teens are making for themselves.

Now if someone would only write a book to help teens understand their parents ...

(5 stars) - A definite read!
Anastasia really understands tweens and teens. In a very easy read... Totally Wired, Anastasia relays what today's kids are doing to what any generation did when they hit this critical age of child development. Things are not so different... we just have new ways to communicate. And like any generation that had their battles, this generation is learning to know what is and is not appropriate, who I should or should not talk to and how being connected online all the time can affect me and the world around me. As co-creator of Zoey's Room, an online community for tween girls -- I highly recommend all parents and educators to read this and remember what it was like to be that age...

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