Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
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 [...]
Looking for some homework helpers for the new school year? Here’s a list in progress of sites that have helped my kids over the years.
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.
Q) Dear Mom:
Can I have a cell phone? All my friends have one…We promise to be responsible!
Love, your daughters
How many screens are you plugged into each day? I added up my screen use recently and was up to 4 by 10am: my iPhone, TV for the morning news, my laptop and a satellite computer monitor plugged into my laptop.
My daughter really wants an iTouch. She’s 12…a tween. We heard nothing about this until recently when a friend was over who happened to have been given one for a holiday gift. It turns out that many of her friends have them now so she feels like iPods are suddenly passe.
Instead of asking us for one or concocting a plan to put it on her next birthday list, she came up with the idea to earn enough money for it by doing chores around the house.
If there is one saying that embodies new year’s resolutions it is this: the more things change, the more they stay the same!
Our resolutions enterring this new decade are not that dramatically different from those we had in 2000. If you read enough posts and end of the year wrap ups from 2009 and 1999, the list is virtually idential: we all want to be more healthy, to be kinder, to feel less stress out, to spend more time with family and friends.
With back to school time upon us, this is the perfect time to focus on friends and think about the impact we make on our friends and they make on us, and to help our kids understand what we mean when we say things like ‘find friends that are good for you’ and ‘weed out friends that are bad for you’.
What’s your media diet like? Do you have a healthy balance? Too much? Too little? This month, the FitTips focus is how much media we all use with the goal to find a healthy middle ground so we can be [...]
With our world becoming high tech, it’s not surprising that gizmos and programs or our computers, iPhones and Smartphones are emerging to help us track everything from our infant’s cry to our child’s development. But, are these necessary?
