Dr. Jim Taylor

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

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 [...]

Parenting: Is Technology Creating a Family Divide?

By Dr. Jim Taylor| 2013-03-12T13:01:39-07:00 March 12th, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: children, facebook, family, family guy, friending, parenting, relationships, social media, technology, texting, tool time, twitter, two and a half men|1 Comment

Nowhere is the impact of popular culture and technology on children’s relationships more noticeable than in families. Both influences have contributed to a growing divide between the traditional roles that children and their parents play while, at the same time, blurring those same lines between parents and children. Over the past two decades, children who, [...]