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The Mayo Clinic recently put out a “Tween and Teen Health” note entitled Teen texting: Help your teen avoid the risks. In our opinion, their message is right on – if you are concerned about teen texting, there are two basic things you should do: Monitor your teen’s texting habits Set — and enforce — appropriate limits …

A Massachusetts teenager was sentenced Wednesday to two years in prison and loss of his license for 15 years for causing a fatal crash by texting while driving…………  http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/06/12090348-massachusetts-teen-sentenced-to-prison-for-texting-while-driving?lite

The husband of a Pleasanton woman found shot to death in her home along with her  13-year-old daughter said his wife had grown “paranoid” about the teenager’s  online communications, police said Tuesday. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/07/BATM1OESIG.DTL#ixzz1uQoqMx33

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A sixteen-year-old girl was charged Thursday with manslaughter, assault, and texting while driving for a September 2011 crash that killed a woman.      http://fox4kc.com/2012/04/19/serious-charges-for-teen-accused-of-texting-in-fatal-accident/

The high-profile campaign against distracted driving, especially among young motorists, has seeped deep into the national culture: April is Distracted Driving Month, and tonight’s season premiere of the Fox teen hit TV show Glee features a distracted driving crash cliffhanger from last season. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-09/distracted-teen-driving-texting/54135840/1

Text messaging continues to increase and doctors are referring to excessive texting as a new addiction. Extreme texting causes a range of problems, from isolation and lack of sleep, to skipping meals and ignoring important daily tasks. http://www.promises.com/articles/teens/teens-texting-addiction/

Great article by Mark Walsh from Online Media Daily.  It references a recently published study by the PEW Research Group on teen texting. http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/170501/teens-are-text-crazed-23-own-smartphones.html?edition=44854  

Lindsay Spada of Wilmington is a new mother, but can already envision a day in the not too distant future when she’ll need to decide how big a role digital technology and social media will play in her son’s life. Beyond possible arguments over the use of sites like Facebook, cell phones and texting, and …

The average Canadian sends or receives 41.5 texts per day, with those in the 18-24 age group texting more than 100 times a day. What the stats don’t say is that texting while driving can change your life forever. Read More at Selkirk Journal

Teenage girls send and receive an average of 4,000 texts a month, or 133 every single day of their lives. A survey has found that girls aged between 13 and 17 send the most SMS and MMS messages out of all ages groups – and respond or reply to more than five every hour. Across …