Logged on and Tuned Out: A Non-Techie's Guide to Parenting a Tech-Savvy Generation »

Vicki Courtney is founder of Virtuous Reality Ministries, producing online content and hosting events across the United States for preteen and teen girls and their parents. She is the best-selling author of 5 Conversations You Must Have with Your Daughter and Your Girl as well as the ECPA Christian Book Award winners TeenVirtue and TeenVirtue Confidential. Vicki lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband and their three children.

Best-selling author Vicki Courtney clearly explains to uninformed parents the basics and potential hazards of cell phone and Internet technology that their high-tech kids use every day.

Graham Christian - Library Journal

Courtney is the founder of Virtuous Reality Ministries and author of Teenvirtue, Your Girl: Raising a Godly Daughter in an Ungodly World, and other guides for the harassed and desperate parents of adolescent girls. Her new book addresses more explicitly the stances parents ought to take regarding the Internet, cell phones, social-networking sites, chat rooms, photo- and video-uploads, and text-message use among their teen children. Whether Courtney's depiction of the digitized world will alarm or comfort parents is open to question; her counsel is not unreasonable and is certainly "Godly" ("'Would what I am typing bring honor and glory to God? Would it make him smile?' "). Many Christian parents will see Courtney's run around the tech-savvy bases as a true Godsend. For most collections.

Acknowledgments     V
Introduction     1
A Call for Parents to Log On and Tune In     7
Instant Messaging: The Party Never Ends     35
Cell Phones: The Average Teen's Lifeline     49
Social Networking Sites: The Virtual Malt Shop     65
Pictures and Videos: Smile, You're on the World Wide Web!     107
Caution-Danger Ahead! Avoiding the Pitfalls of a Digital World     133
Talking Points, Rules, and Safety Contracts     163
Notes     193