Parents on average use 10.18 technological or e-communication devices, according to the University of Minnesota’s ongoing Parenting 2.0 survey. http://www.startribune.com/local/blogs/169354296.html A parent’s guide to social media safety: http://www.mnn.com/family/protection-safety/stories/a-parents-guide-to-social-media-safety# According to a study, young adults between the ages of 25 and 34 make up 74 percent of the smartphone market. http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112691659/teenager-smartphone-growing-091112/ some tools for parents: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-furman/online-learning_b_1909819.html […]
Read More »Parenting and modern tech
September 11, 2012 | For parents of children,For parents of teenagers | Click on title to comment!
Sports playbook
September 10, 2012 | metaphors to help facilitate communication | Click on title to comment!
Relationships are like playing a sport with a teammate who is following a different playbook of rules. Furthermore, you are each constantly editing and changing your own playbook, and you don’t always act in accordance with your book. That leaves a lot of room for inconsistency and misunderstanding. You may be making a legal move […]
Read More »On spanking
September 05, 2012 | For parents of children | Click on title to comment!
An honest commentary from a parent and commentator (From Canada) on why spanking doesn’t work: http://www.cjad.com/blog/BarryMorganShow/blogentry.aspx?BlogEntryID=10434515
Read More »The little dolphin
September 04, 2012 | metaphors to help facilitate communication | Click on title to comment!
There are certain people in our lives that can become our personal example of a certain trait. Sometimes it is a trait we have that we wish we didn’t, and we tend to be quite hard on those friends, since they remind us of that which we don’t like in ourselves. In other cases, it […]
Read More »On Sibling Rivalry
September 04, 2012 | For parents of children,For parents of teenagers | Click on title to comment!
