22 07, 2013

Is a Media-filled Life Leaving Your Children Unprepared for Real Life?

By | July 22nd, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Beyond the specific areas in which you need to prepare your children for this crazy new world and, as I have shown, in which popular culture and technology is not helping you, there is an overriding way you can best ready your children for what lies ahead. You need to prepare them for life. You [...]

24 06, 2013

How Your Children Can Get Enough Sleep in the 24/7 Connected World

By | June 24th, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , |1 Comment

Sleep may be the most important, though overlooked, contributor to your children’s development and health. The reality is that children can survive without exercise and on little food (though I don’t recommend either), but all children need sleep. It’s often unnoticed because you don’t usually see your children sleeping and its benefits are not readily [...]

3 06, 2013

Feed Your Children a Balanced “Diet” of Technology

By | June 3rd, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

The operative word in raising healthy children in this often-times unhealthy digital world they are growing up in is balance. A nutritional analogy works well here. A balanced nutritional diet doesn’t mean 50 percent healthy food and 50 percent junk food. Rather, a balanced diet involves ensuring that your children get adequate nutrition from all [...]

20 05, 2013

Help When it Helps, Don’t When it Doesn’t

By | May 20th, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , |0 Comments

There was a wonderful article in the NY Times last week that described when it is helpful to help your children (and others) and when it actually hurts their development.

8 05, 2013

What Do Young People Say About Their Relationship with Technology?

By | May 8th, 2013|Categories: Technology|Tags: , , , , , , |0 Comments

To give you a sense of the scope of the effect of technology on the psychological and emotional health of young people, I want to describe the results of an international study involving more than 1000 students from ten countries across five continents that asked students to disconnect from technology for 24 hours. The results and insights, [...]

11 04, 2013

Is Big Media Slowly Killing Our Children?

By | April 11th, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Your children’s physical health is the foundation for everything they become and do. As corporeal beings, they, like the rest of humanity, are at the mercy of the fitness of their bodies to handle the ordinary challenges and extraordinary demands that are placed on them during childhood and beyond. You are responsible for ensuring that [...]

1 04, 2013

Kids Bored? Give Them an iPad?

By | April 1st, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , |0 Comments

A really important NY Times article about the influence of excessive technology use on children, in this case, using iPhones and iPads to placate kids when they get bored or cranky. If you want to read my take on it, read my post about what I call iPhone Syndrome.

1 04, 2013

Face-to-Face Time = Healthier Children

By | April 1st, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

A great NY Times article describing research demonstrating the importance of face-to-face time in children connecting with others and developing relationships. What's fascinating about this article is that it doesn't just explain the importance of "real" connection with other at  psychological, emotional, and social levels, but rather its role biologically and even neurologically in our [...]

26 03, 2013

Teach Your Wired Children about Healthy Relationships

By | March 26th, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , |3 Comments

Technology, such as the Internet, smartphones, and social media, can have great benefits in helping your children form and maintain relationships. At the same time, if not used with limits and guidance by your children, such use may prevent them from developing the essential relationship qualities and skills that have allowed us to make real [...]

18 03, 2013

Parenting: What is Technology Doing to Your Children’s Friendships?

By | March 18th, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

As your children develop and enter the social world outside of your home, their peers’ importance to them will grow. In fact, as your children progress through high school, their peer group will exert a sometimes dismayingly great influence over them as you feel your own relationship with them diminish. Basically, being accepted and liked [...]