Five Phone Habits to Set an Example for Your Kids
April 26, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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Many in the parenting world today are concerned with cell phone usage negatively affecting their children. Headlines such as “Technology is Destroying Our Youth” are scaring parents into making all sorts of cell phone boundaries to prevent technology addiction in their children. While…
Teaching Your Kids Healthy Phone Habits
April 21, 2021
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Shanna Hovley
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Tell me if this sounds familiar: You pull out your phone to respond to a text and your kid sees it, immediately asking if they can play a game or watch a video. Not again. Healthy Phone Habits Kids are naturally curious—whatever is…
Screen Time Rules for Kids
April 16, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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Kids, Parents, and Technology Ping! Admit it: you heard the sound in your head when you read that. And now you might even be checking your phone to make sure it really was in your head. For most of us, hearing that sound…
Giving Your Child a Smartphone
April 15, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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Making the decision to get your child a phone isn’t easy. There are so many questions to ask yourself. Is your child ready for the responsibility of a phone? What kind of phone should they get? Should you regulate their use? Let’s take…
Helping Your Kids Balance Phone Use and Family Time
April 14, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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We’ve all seen a family out for dinner together but instead of talking with each other, they’re all on their phones. We might shake our heads at this, but the thing is, we’re all guilty of getting sucked into our phones (don’t tell…
Why Boredom is Good for Kids
April 13, 2021
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Tiffany Tolman
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Who knew being a mom would be such a balancing act? Scrambled eggs or birthday cake for breakfast? (Cake has eggs, right?) Homework or hanging out? Tough love or leniency? It feels like we field “this or that” questions all day, every day.…
Should Kids Have Social Media?
March 29, 2021
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Jodi Kunz
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It’s no easy task teaching your children how to navigate the world, especially when it comes to certain areas that could seriously harm them. Today, one such area is definitely social media. Should kids have social media? That’s a tough question to answer.…
Introducing Your Kid to a Phone
March 26, 2021
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Reagan Fausett
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Addiction to smart devices is real. Many adults are pulled into spending hours and hours on their phones and computers. Working from home during COVID has given us a good cop-out for always having our devices at the ready, but if we’re being…