Showing posts with label American Academy of Pediatrics recommends doctors ask minor patients about their online activities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Academy of Pediatrics recommends doctors ask minor patients about their online activities. Show all posts

Monday, March 28, 2011

Doctors Should Ask Kids: Are You On Facebook?; NPR, 3/28/11

NPR; Doctors Should Ask Kids: Are You On Facebook? :

"If the pediatrician wants to know if your kids are on Facebook, it's not because she wants to friend them.

The question about Facebook, and other queries about a child's life online, should be part of the medical history doctors take of kids in the age of social media, according to recommendations just out from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Parents should find out, too."