Going on a road trip is almost a right of passage as a kid growing up. Especially in large families when buying multiple plane tickets can get too expensive. Road trips can be extremely boring, and there can …
There is a new up and coming social platform that kids are downloading and using right now. The app is called Houseparty and is used as a group video chat platform. To give you a brief history of …
Many parents arrive at the parental control party a little bit late. Perhaps they gave their child a phone, not really understanding the dangers that could be associated with it, and decided after the fact that parental controls needed …
There are many stories of kids being kidnapped by someone they were chatting with online. One thing is common in these stories, the parents had no idea that interactions between their child and this stranger were even taking …
Unless your teenagers have been living under a rock, they might be playing, or want to play a game called Fortnite. Previously this game has only been available to play on a PC or Gaming console, but it …
Sometimes I feel like sitting in my rocker on my front porch to complain about “kids these days”. Children growing up in this digital age have access to things I could not have even dreamed of when I …
Sadly in the current world we live in, it is not a question about if your child will be exposed to pornography, it is when. According to the American Psychological Association “the average age of first exposure to …
Put Some Trust in Family Dinner The over-scheduled life is killing us. It chokes out time to be quiet, it chokes out time to be creative, it chokes out time to reflect and evaluate life …and sadly, with …
A while ago my sister came to me desperate to find a way to monitor her teenager’s phone activities. I helped her get something installed and she handed the phones back over to her children. Her daughter immediately …
Mom: Sarah In this day and age of technology, kids are all too easily exposed to devices and easily become addicted. I felt this could be detrimental to my children and all the write ups suggest this too. …