Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
No doubt we live in worry filled times. From the stock market to our kids, there’s no shortage of issues we can come up with to angst over in any given day. Interestingly, our collective concerns over our children and [...]
Happy almost New Year! Have you made any resolutions this year? How about your kids? My daughters used to call them “revolutions” when they were younger and there are years I feel that my list falls into that category!
Today the NTSB formally recommended a nationwide ban on texting while driving. Given the statistics cited in their press release, and the amount of near misses we’ve all experienced, this almost seems a day late. The prompt for this national [...]
How many Apple devices do you own? At the moment, we own 10 among the 4 of us between MacBooks, iPods, iPhones, an Airport Express and an iPad. At any given point during our waking, one of us is using [...]
I love the theme of this year’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month: “Our Shared Responsibility” That truly hits the nail on the head with the best way to approach not only our safety and security online, but our developing kids [...]
Like many of you, I woke up today with an interesting email from Facebook that immediately grabbed my attention, in a good way: The euphoria was not to last long, though. Checking Facebook shortly after I [...]
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Do your kids text?
My 12 year old has a friend who loves to text but doesn’t get that it exists on a phone that
1. has an off switch
2. belongs to a person who may be busy when the text comes in an unable to return the text right away.
By now you’ve seen the headlines of the AAP clinical report and “Facebook Depression”. The report, though, is about much more than that.
