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Family Habits: How to Change Bad Ones and Reinforce Good Ones

January 13, 2021 by Vincent O'Keefe Leave a Comment

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Did your family make a New Year’s resolution this month? Probably not, since we tend to think of resolutions as individual endeavors. But that may be the reason so many resolutions fail, as Charles Duhigg explains in his bestselling The Power of Habit. To change a bad family habit or reinforce a good one, we first need to know how habits operate. Duhigg writes “habits emerge because the brain is constantly looking for ways to save effort ... without habit loops, our brains would shut down, overwhelmed by the minutiae of daily life.” In fact, nearly half the actions we perform each day … [Read more...]

Filed Under: parenting advice Tagged With: books, cell phones, habits, raising teens, technology, tips

Location Tracking Your Teenager: Avoid These 4 Mistakes

September 18, 2019 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

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We live in a world where everyone voluntarily carries a powerful tracking device with us everywhere we go -- a cell phone. Most of us wouldn’t dream of giving it up. We love that “getting lost” has become a thing of the past. We enjoy being able to tag our location in travel photos with a single tap. We’ve gotten used to the luxury of taking an Uber any time of the day or night. There’s no doubt location tracking has incredible benefits. But in the realm of parenting it can also create tension, resentment, depression, and some downright nasty arguments. Teenagers can feel controlled, spied … [Read more...]

Filed Under: gear, relationships, teens / tweens Tagged With: Andy Earle, cell phones, safety, technology

Parent-by-Numbers: How to Develop Family Tech-Life Balance

May 8, 2019 by Vincent O'Keefe

laptops smartphones table food tech-lefe balance

A recent obituary hit me surprisingly hard: “Paint-by-Numbers Maestro Dan Robbins Dies at 93.” The mere mention of the paint-by-numbers inventor transported me back to my childhood dining room table where I would sit for hours engrossed in my latest "masterpiece.” You could say I was addicted to that low-tech pursuit. I thought of that addiction while reading Adam Alter’s recent book, Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. Thirty years from now, whose obituary might send today’s kids back to a passion or hobby in our current homes? Some kind of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: gear, parenting advice, work-life balance Tagged With: cell phones, technology

We Bought Our 6th Grader a Cell Phone — Deal With It

October 15, 2018 by Pete Gilbert 1 Comment

children taking selfie with cell phone

At the end of this past summer, my wife and I bought our sixth grader a cell phone. Right now, many of you are groaning. You're probably thinking, “A sixth grader? Really?!?” Yep, we did, but, here’s the good news. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU. We bought our daughter a cell phone for a few different reasons… Because I’m no longer a full-time stay-at-home dad, there will be occasions where she will be a latchkey kid. It won’t happen often, but when it does, it will be nice for her to call us (side note we don’t have a landline … remember those?) She got her Safe Sitter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: gear Tagged With: babysitting, cell phones, technology

Increase Screen Time for Kids Because the World Embraces Technology

January 14, 2015 by Kyle Eichenberger Leave a Comment

child on computer screen time

Whenever a new study or article about children and screen time is published, I hunt through it for the typical bias against technology I've come to expect from modern parenting culture. Not a day goes by without somebody complaining about kids and their computer/cellphone/tablet/TV gaming use. The kids are too young! They are getting too much exposure! They don't spend enough time building tree forts anymore!. Remember back when so many people thought violent video games or rap lyrics were ruining children? We all lived through that and, thankfully, hardly anybody thinks a first-person … [Read more...]

Filed Under: education, parenting styles, play Tagged With: cell phones, screen time, technology, toys

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