Wherever you are, be there: Parenting attention in the home
One of my favorite sayings I heard over 30 years ago from a community college professor in Sacramento. At that time, I had recently graduated from university and I wanted to apply my training in behavioral science to better understand how technology could be used to...
2020 Hindsight: Make this the year of creating a culture of connection at home
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...
Parent screentime
This morning I came across this feature in the Atlantic about parent screentime. Very timely and worth contemplating. One of the most important parenting skills in this cyber-powered world is to take charge of how we manage our attention. And by attention, I mean...
Thoughts that make you a secure parent, how to handle vaping and more
Fifteen years ago when I started this mission to strengthen the parent-child bond in a cyber-powered world my own confidence as a parent was deeply shaken. And while mostly I observed that the children were making good choices despite their peer pressures – still the...
Why devices are not to blame for a lack of connection with your child
Recently I found a very honest and inspirational book on parenting at the local thrift store, entitled, The Key to Your Child’s Heart, by Gary Smalley. Published in 1984, Smalley (an author, educator, pastor, husband and father) shares some of the fundamentals of...
