Shakes were spiked, cops say
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/03/5088896/shakes-were-spiked-cops-say.html
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Two Placer County teenage girls were arrested for allegedly using drugged milkshakes to knock out the parents of one of the girls so they could log on to the Internet, Rocklin police said.
Internet access at the Rocklin home was routinely shut off at 10 p.m., said Lt. Lon Milka, a department spokesman….A little bit of adolescent pushback, as teens begin to express their individuality, is good, said Leslie Whitten Baughman, a child therapist with a practice in Sacramento. But drugging your parents “would not be a healthy level of rebellion.”
The 15-year-old told police that her parents’ Internet policy was “too strict,” Milka said.
Teens often fear being left out of “once-in-a-lifetime” events, which they might experience on the Internet, said Gordon Richards, executive director of EMQ FamiliesFirst, a children’s social services nonprofit.
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Cerebral circuitry
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c19b2e1e-5595-11e2-bbd1-00144feab49a.html#axzz2H13ZwsvO
Researchers are focusing on whether gadgets are changing how our brains work as regards empathy and human interaction
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With friends like these…
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/42d2acb2-9fb3-11e1-8b84-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2H13ZwsvO
Therapists fear that social networking is changing the way we relate to each other
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Mourning in a Digital Age
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Today, with religiosity in decline, families dispersed and the pace of life feeling quickened, these elaborate, carefully staged mourning rituals are less and less common. Old customs no longer apply, yet new ones have yet to materialize.
“We’re just too busy in this world to deal with losing people,” said Maggie Callanan, a hospice nurse for the last 30 years and the author of “Final Gifts,” an influential book about death and dying. “And yet we have to.”