by Joanna Jullien | Jan 8, 2020 | Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Faith, Family, Happiness, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Social Media, Suicide, Wisdom, Youth Suicide
Welcome to 2020. The dawn of a new decade full of promise and challenges in this age of cyber-powered information. It is easy to become overwhelmed by the trends impacting youth and families today. A recent headline in the New York Times features youth suicide on the...
by Joanna Jullien | Jan 7, 2020 | Boundaries, Children's Health & Mental Health, Discipline, Faith, Family, Internet addiction, Parent-child relationship, Parental Authority, Parental control, Parenting, Social Media, Substance abuse prevention, Wisdom
Fifteen years ago, just before the advent of smartphones and social media, mobile devices landed in the hands of youth. At that time, my youngest hit middle school. He had purchased a “pay-as-you-go” mobile device with his own paper route money. My husband and I...
by Joanna Jullien | Dec 11, 2019 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Children's mental health, Discipline, Family, Internet Safety, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Social Media, Teenagers, Texting, Wisdom
A recent feature on Jersey 105.5 reminds parents that youth today experience stress with social media influences that can inspire great anxiety – especially around the holidays. There is more time to hang out on-line and young folks feel a pressure to take pictures to...
by Joanna Jullien | Nov 26, 2019 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Motivation, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Relationship, Social Media, Substance Abuse & Addiction, Wisdom
Executive summary The commercial interests hired experts to craft social media campaigns to engage minor-aged youth in vaping. The response to these commercial efforts using e-cigarette technology to get youth as nicotine consumers includes 1) a Surgeon General...
by Joanna Jullien | Nov 19, 2019 | addiction, Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Discipline, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child communication, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Relationship, Substance abuse prevention, Wisdom
Device addiction is a thing Commercial interests have used brain science associated with addiction to develop apps and devices that tap the same short-term reward system of the brain like a drug. In this way, the underlying biochemical dynamic with addiction is a...
by Joanna Jullien | Nov 7, 2019 | Anxiety, Children's mental health, Discipline, Faith, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child communication, Parenting, Relationship, Social Media, Wisdom
It is true that children learn from our example; by witnessing our reactions to the things that happen in the world, at home and in our communities. In this way I understand resilience as learning how to respond to anti-social and hostile behavior and adversity with...
by Joanna Jullien | Nov 6, 2019 | Bullying, Cyberbullying, Discipline, Faith, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parent-child relationship, Parenting, Social Media, Wisdom
In the network culture, it is easy to believe things that are not true and focus on things that do not really matter. At Core Connectivity we offer insights and tools to build parent confidence, foster resilience and strengthen family bonds in a cyber-powered world....
by Joanna Jullien | Oct 24, 2019 | Anxiety, Bullying, Children & Teens Problems & Pitfalls, Children's Health & Mental Health, Cyber Safety, Cyberbullying, Discipline, Family, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parenting, Relationship, Wisdom
As you may know, I am an ancient cyber mom trained in behavioral science at U.C. Berkeley. My sons are grown, 35 and 29 years old. I left a career in technology (circa 2004) when my youngest hit middle school and devices landed in the hands of youth. I wanted to...
by Joanna Jullien | Oct 23, 2019 | Anxiety, Children's Health & Mental Health, Eating disorders, Eating disorders, Family, Parenting, Relationship, Wisdom
Our guest blogger, Terryann Sanders, LMFT, CEDS, has been in private practice treating individuals with eating disorders for the past 15 years. Most recently she co-founded and opened the Eating Disorder Collaborative, a group of independent clinicians that have come...
by Joanna Jullien | Oct 19, 2019 | Anxiety, Discipline, Faith, Family, Happiness, Internet porn, Mobile Phone Use and Children, Parenting, Prevention strategy, Social Media, Wisdom
A recent report by Pew Research Center indicates that anxiety and depression are among the top concerns for teens. According to the feature, the total number of teenagers who recently experienced depression increased 59% between 2007 and 2017, and the rate of growth...
