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Tips To Keep Your Child Safe on the Internet ~Guest Post~
The Internet has revolutionized the world. It helps us to stay connected with our friends and family. It entertains us, updates us with current affairs and much more. But along with us, our kids are...
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Are Your Grandparents Connected?
Its so easy to stay connect to loved ones now. We have access to Skype, texting, and social media to keep our family and friends up to date with our crazy lives. Its important to stay in touch with...
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Parenting vs. Online Invasion of Privacy
Internet accessibility is everywhere. Children now carry a smart phone or have a computer/smart pad in their bedroom and are on those devices for extended amounts of time every day. It is speculated...
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How to Ease Into Social Media in the Classroom ~Guest Post
As of September 2015, 87 percent of teachers surveyed by Harris Poll don’t use social media in the classroom. However, many educators find social media to be a helpful tool in learning: “I have found...
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Dear Social Media, You Are Not My Diary
With social media in the hands of so many young kids and adolescence, sometimes their inner most thoughts are easy to publish online… which is the LAST place it should be. A vent, a sadness, an...
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Green with Envy. Why is Social Media Causing Us to be so Jealous?
You’ve just read another post about how happy she is. Oh look. She went on another vacation. He just got a new house. They just bought a new car. We’ve all read those posts on social media where the...
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Frienedy is an Ideal Place for Parenting and Social Media to Intersect
An 11-year old girl downloaded Instagram and began uploading pictures and collecting followers. The more followers she gained, the more liked she felt. She was a really good girl, easy to parent,...
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What Resources are Available for Parents of a Special Needs Child? ~ Guest Post
When we signed on for this parenting gig, many of us knew that there would be long nights and struggles at some point. Children, all of them as a fact, come with their own set of unique challenges that...
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Understanding Cyberbullying- Guest Post
In the present day and age, the number of internet users has been increasing at an exponential rate, and the innumerable social networking sites have taken control of people’s social life. Today, the...
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Are Your Grandparents Connected?
Its so easy to stay connect to loved ones now. We have access to Skype, texting, and social media to keep our family and friends up to date with our crazy lives. Its important to stay in touch with...
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How to Use Email to Text
Did you know that you can get e-mail on your phone? This is a great way for kids to be able to “text” their parents messages and stay in contact without having a cell phone. All you need to know is...
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10 Smart Phone Etiquette Rules to Live By
Not too long ago, in a time far far away, families had one phone and one phone number. If your household was lucky enough, you may have had two or three land line phones. Kids were taught at an early...
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What Parents Need to Understand About Live Streaming Apps
Live streaming apps are gaining more and more popularity, It’s a way for people to broadcast their own life or experience in real time. As this can be a great tool, it can also have some serious...
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10 Back To School Tips To Keep Children Healthy
The beginning of the school year marks the introduction of bacterial infections and viruses that can keep our kids home and away from valuable learning time. Classrooms can be incubators for strep...
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5 Ways to Motivate Your Kids to be Active
My kids are nestled on the couch—one has a Nintendo DS in his hands, the other an iPad. With the heat sweltering in the 90s and humidity so heavy it feels like a wet towel, there seems to be little...
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Summer Jobs for Kids
Summer is nearly here. It’s almost time for kids to take a break from school, and cross things off their summer bucket list. It’s also a great time for kids to learn some new skills and try to make...
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4 Spring Dip Recipes Kids and Parents Can Easily Make Together
You want to spend more time with your child, but you’re stumped. There must be something you can do with your child that isn’t digital-related – right? Cooking is a great skill to have (for boys and...
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Smarter Ways to Protect Your Kids through Their Smartphones
Kids are more in tune with technology and new gadgets than us parents. They may already be using the latest social networking app or are familiar with the latest games while we’re still trying to...
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Teaching your Kids the Right Way to Wash Their Hands
Washing your hands is probably something you don’t even think about. It’s one of those tasks you just do, or sometimes do. And although it’s a brainless process, surprisingly a recent Michigan State...
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Starting the Conversation- Sexting and Your Teen. Guest Post and Infographic
“If you really loved me…” That is what led twelve year old Michaela Snyder to engage in sexting with her crush who was also in the same grade. The boy was issuing threats that he would end the...
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