Twitch, an online streaming platform owned by Amazon, is increasingly popular among children and young people whose hobby is video games. What content does Twitch offer? This application is best known for the online broadcast of playing video games. It works by the streamer, the person...
Avast, a global leader in digital security, has discovered an online community of minors who create, exchange, and spread malicious software (kompjuterski virus) to steal and misuse collected data. The community uses servers on the Discord platform as a place for discussion as well as for...
Video games often come with a bad reputation. Parents view them as a waste of time, judge them as overly violent, and some experts say children use them as an escape from reality. While there is some truth in these claims, it wouldn't hurt to view this activity from another angle! Video Games...
In the previous text, we touched on the topic of abduction and how we should introduce children to this topic. What is an abduction? Abduction is a criminal offense that involves taking a person away without their consent, often holding them in captivity. Family abductions are also abductions,...
"Don't talk to strangers!" The concept of a "stranger" can be difficult for children to understand. When we present unknown people as a danger, children believe that strangers are evil, ugly people – so a nice man asking for help to find his lost puppy or asking for a street name doesn't seem...
"I would feel relief when overwhelming emotions passed, so I began to self-harm regularly, first with a knife, then with razors, cutting into my wrists, forearms, and then other parts of my body, I would do it for about 15 minutes, and afterwards, I wouldn't feel so awful anymore. I could...
We can agree, we've all yelled at our children at some point. After the tenth warning for a child to do something, or to finally stop doing something, and upon being ignored... Yes, we resort to yelling. Most often, in that burst of frustration, everything we've ever learned about positive...
The Role of Fathers in Balkan Families We often overlook this topic, even though it's very important as it affects the entire family structure, children's development, and their relationship with themselves and the world around them. The image of a Balkan father is simple – a man whose primary...
While scrolling through Instagram content, you've come across a photo of your favorite actress using a new moisturizing cream from a well-known brand. Would you characterize such content as an advertisement for the cream? Commercial messages and advertising have become an integral part of...
A child's desire to be popular, to make a lot of friends, and to be liked by a group of peers is a natural social tendency of every person, and there's nothing wrong with that. However, social networks have completely changed the way children make friends and view them today. Instead of...
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