When I was a kid cautionary tales usually involved crossing the street, stranger danger, and scissors. Modern parents are adding anecdotes about MySpace and other social networking sites where strangers transform from shadowy abstract figures in far away communities to hoards of perverts lurking about your living room.

Net Neutrality was interesting enough because of the opposing punditries that kissed and made up (for this battle anyway), but the Parents Television Council (PTC) soldiering alongside Democrats? Verizon sponsoring sessions at the Small Business Summit?

A Midwestern private school has sent home warnings about students placing personal information on the popular networking site MySpace.com.

Earlier this week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee, in regards to legitimacy of the Bush Administration’s NSA wiretapping surveillance program.

Not every blog reader has the best of intentions. They are, at times, predators of some nature, and use the popularity of the blogosphere among teenagers as a point of strategy for acting out their fantasies. If you have teenage children who are bloggers (statistically there’s a good chance of it), then it’s a good idea to have them check out BlogSafety.com.

Evil genius baby that plots to kill his mother. Sophisticated talking dog who often reverts to dog-like tendencies. Really stupid fat man. Ahhhh, Family Guy, you make my heart sing. And now you have a podcast to complement your weblog. Holy freakin’ crap, I never get to write about this stuff at work! Thank you, Seth MacFarlane.

How does this relate to the search marketer? Ah well that’s the story for our readers isn’t it. Well, we’ve got that too. They also ranked the top 10 web site by parent company and top 10 web sites by brand as well as the time spent per person combined in both home and work. This is where the tale really is told.

A Nashville couple was sentenced to two years probation after a stripper “took their son’s picture” at his 16th birthday party. The euphemism, “took his picture,” may only be known by a few, and I’m not talking.

A new Scottish study says the safest place for the smallest babies is in a crib as sharing a bed or sofa with parents seems to increase the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Meredith is planning to acquire Parents, Child, Fitness and Family Circle magazines from Gruner + Jahr for $350 million provided all closing conditions are met.

A two-year London study asserts that kids with computer illiterate parents will suffer from stifled educational growth.

Five Internet service providers were forced by a UK court order to reveal the identities of 33 music file sharers. A third of them turned out to be parents, whose children were doing the file sharing, apparently caught unawares.

Hot Banana Software Inc., a leading North American Web Content Management System (CMS) company, has announced that Parents’ Action For Children has become the latest Hot Banana Web Site to go live.

More than half of American families with teenagers use filters to limit access to potentially harmful online content, a 65% increase from the number of those who used filters in 2000.