When you have kids, your world changes. Suddenly, you have a whole new set of priorities that revolve around someone other than yourself. And you want your kids to experience the best things in life, like going to good schools, participating in soccer, gymnastics or little league — or hanging out with friends at the mall or online. Yet, as their world expands, their personal information becomes available in a lot more places, in a lot more ways, than you may realize. Even the doctor’s office can leave them vulnerable to one of today’s biggest crimes: child identity theft. So, we want to help you get all the information you need to arm yourself against this crime. You’ll find it here… just in case.
If you are like so many parents these days, frantically trying to keep up with the new technology and the social media that has become part of your kids’ lives, I would like to recommend a new book that might be of help. Raising Digital Families for Dummies by Amy [...]
For many people, there isn’t a single thing they wouldn’t do for their parents, and no present is too great to show their appreciation. That’s why, on Mother’s Day, millions of people scramble to find that perfect gift for mom to show her that they value her and how much [...]
I recently told you about a proposal by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to make it easier for parents of children who have had their identities stolen to obtain new Social Security numbers for those victims. Rather than go through the laborious process of trying to clean up a credit [...]
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In the almost 50 years since the national Head Start program was enacted, the Department of Health and Human Services has been triumphant in making sure that thousands of young students who grew up in impoverished areas were given the same opportunity to succeed as their more privileged peers. When [...]
You may have heard about a relatively new application called Snapchat. In fact, given how fast its use is growing, there is probably a good chance your kids are using it. You might want to share what follows with them. The concept is relatively easy to understand. Using Snapchat you [...]
In my last blog I talked about the not so uncommon situation where it is discovered that a Social Security Number (SSN) that was issued to a young person — often just after birth — has actually been in use well before that child was born. This happens when a [...]
Last year when Joe Mason and I wrote “Bankrupt at Birth,” providing a detailed look at child identity theft, we chose the title because many child identity theft victims find that they have credit or employment records (often negative) going back to well before they were even born. It is [...]
Many parents are constantly worrying about their child’s safety in terms of physical danger and potential hazards to their identity — both of which might only contribute to the standard “hardships” of growing up that most kids experience. This is especially true of parents who have children that recently left [...]