One significant key to a child's success? An involved parent

Research tells us that being involved in your child’s life will help them be more successful. Children can perform well in school if their parents aren't involved. But they have a better shot at success if their parents are involved.
Some area parents are finding a variety of ways to be involved - from making sure their children have breakfast before school to helping with homework to helping the classroom. The result? Their children bloom.
Yet too many parents aren’t taking the time - when we know it works.
You can find more details in my story.
So what about you? What do you do with your children? Do you have any ideas about how parents can get more involved involved?

Sexting - Is your child doing it?

I recently wrote about the growing phenomenon of teens texting nude pictures of themselves to others. It’s led to school districts creating policies about what they can do with cell phones if students violate rules about having them in school.
Can schools look at a student’s confiscated cell phone for no other reason than it's in a principal's possession? Should they?
The issue is not just what schools should do, but how parents, and others should deal with the possibility of teens doing this. One parent told me that in her generation a girl may take a picture like that show it to a friend or boyfriend, but it never went any further than that. Now, these pictures are making the rounds.
What should schools do? What about the police? What about parents? What about teens?