5 Things Before Kindergarten
For those of us with tweens and teens, online safety is at the forefront of our daily parenting concerns. But what about parents with...
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- Feb 14
- 5 min
Fighting Big Tech: The Tide is Turning
Parents and students are fighting Big Tech by telling Congress their social media horror stories. We were there for the Big Tech hearing.
- Aug 11, 2022
- 3 min
Landmark Legislation for Online Safety
The most important federal legislation to protect kids online is about to hit the Senate floor. It’s been a long time coming. Since we...
- Oct 13, 2021
- 5 min
How We Introduced Social Media
If you’ve been following us for any amount of time, you probably know that we have very intentionally slowed/delayed every threshold of...
- Feb 16, 2021
- 8 min
Protecting Kids on MNPS Devices
Are you a Metro Nashville Public Schools parent worried about the safety and distraction of your kids on district-issued devices? We’re...
- Feb 12, 2021
- 7 min
Tech Safety Literacy
Parents tend to talk about digital literacy and digital civility with their kids, trying to educate them about areas of risk and...
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
In The Trenches
Virtual school. Remote learning. Online education. Many names, many varied experiences, one singular commonality: kids are on screens...
- Aug 26, 2020
- 1 min
Childhood 2.0
The information age, smart phones, and social media have drastically changed the way children experience the world and others around...
- Jul 19, 2020
- 1 min
Going Virtual
Online Consultations We’re four months into the global pandemic and just now catching a bit of time to breathe and strategize for the...
- Apr 14, 2020
- 2 min
Pandemic Parenting
Here we are in day 29 of parenting through a global pandemic. Although we seem to be figuring a few things out, we continue to wrestle...
- Jan 15, 2020
- 3 min
FIVE YEARS
Celebrating Five Years Five years ago we gathered with 13 other parents from our boys’ elementary school to present what we had learned...
- Dec 31, 2019
- 2 min
2020: Perspective
:: Perspective :: The saying goes… hindsight is always 2020. We certainly can see things more clearly when we look back with (here’s the...
- Nov 21, 2019
- 1 min
Tech for the Holidays
Do your kids have new technology on their Holiday wish lists? Are you traveling to extended family and worried about your kids getting...
- Nov 5, 2019
- 1 min
Waiting Well
Waiting Well A key online safety strategy for families is delayed gratification— purposely delaying greater access to certain technology...
- Aug 18, 2019
- 3 min
You Have Options
When it comes to smart phone alternatives for kids, parents have a lot more options today than they did even a few years ago. The main...
- Apr 11, 2019
- 3 min
Fix App Ratings
My kids aren’t on social media. But sometimes when I’m on it, they’ll ask if we can look something up, like a funny meme or hashtag...
- Mar 18, 2019
- 2 min
Calling All TN Parents!
We have an urgent plea for all Tennessee parents. The TN House Joint Resolution 133, “Safer Internet for Children” is in jeopardy unless...
- Feb 5, 2019
- 1 min
Safer Internet for Children
saferinternetforchildren.com Today, Feb. 5, 2019 is Safer Internet Day across the globe. But right here in our own backyard, we’re...
- Dec 31, 2018
- 3 min
New Family Goals
Start Today… Where do you want your family to be by this time next year? What if you could look BACK on a year and know it was the...
- Nov 11, 2018
- 6 min
The New Era of Stranger Danger
It was a brisk fall night, perfect for “Thursday Night Lights,” a middle school football game. On rows of metal bleachers, I had a...
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