Four Apps and Features to Keep Your Family Connected
June 10, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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Are your kids too busy posting the perfect selfie on Instagram to spend time with the family? Do they always have their phones out at dinner? If these are recurring problems in your family, you might consider setting some cellphone boundaries—but as the…
Pros and Cons of Young Kids Having Cell Phones
June 3, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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Spending time together. Pretty content dark-haired girl smiling and showing photos on her photos to her mom while mother hugging her Do you remember that toy you just had to have as a kid? It seemed like everyone had one of them except…
How to Reduce Screen Time
June 2, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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Screen time was already hard enough to keep to a minimum before COVID, but after work, school, and social lives transitioned to online, hours of screen time became nearly unavoidable. Are you concerned about the amount of time your children are spending in…
Parental Influence—Why It’s Important
June 1, 2021
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Tiffany Tolman
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In a strange twist of events, I was included in a social media group of “influencers” a couple years ago. I say influencers with air quotes because I barely knew what one was, let alone considered myself among their ranks. Even now, when…
The Pros of Technology for Kids
May 26, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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Technology takes quite a beating from us as a society. We blame technology for destroying our kids, spying on us, and causing addiction. And let’s be honest, we all have the irrational fear that someday technology will turn against us and take over…
How to Avoid Miscommunication Online
May 25, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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Have you ever gotten the “we need to talk” text? I’m convinced that this text unlocks some horrible superpower our brain has to remember literally every mistake we ever made and everything we ever said that involved the sender of the text. Lucky…
Five COVID-Safe Social Activities For Your Child
May 24, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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COVID-19 really put a damper on things, to say the least. And even after a whole year of living with it, most of us are still eager to get back to our social lives. Having been deprived of in-person school and extracurricular activities,…
How to Help Your Kids Navigate Social Media
April 28, 2021Social Media
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Jennifer Johnson
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Lawmakers in the U.S. recently called YouTube Kids “a wasteland of vapid, consumerist content,” saying that there is little educational value in the content served to kids—and that the platform doesn’t ensure that children are protected from potentially harmful videos. YouTube Kids isn’t…