Few parents would let their children wander the streets at all hours or meet with strangers, but kids do that and more on the internet without even leaving their bedrooms. The internet has changed parenting forever. Carr-Gregg provides an essential guide to the online world of today's real wired children, from toddlers to teenagers.
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is one of Australia's leading authorities on teenage behaviour, and as a practising psychologist specialises in the area of parenting adolescents and adolescent mental health. He was founder of the world's first national support group for teenage cancer patients, CanTeen (The Australian Teenage Cancer Patients' Society).He is the consultant psychologist to many schools and national organisations, an official ambassador for the federal government's youth suicide prevention programs beyondblue and Mindmatters, and has been the resident parenting expert on Channel 7's Sunrise program since 2005. He has written several books on parenting adolescents including the bestsellers The Princess Bitchface Syndrome and Surviving Adolescents, both published by Penguin. He is also a columnist for teen magazines Girlfriend and Explode. In 2000 he was the subject of This is Your Life.