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How My Tween Daughter Hosts the Most Amazing Weekly ZOOM Parties To Help Cure Coronavirus Social Distancing Blues
My daughter Sienna is a social creature, just like most ten year olds.Somewhere around week six of #socialdistancing and #familyquarantine she had had enough. While her older brother and younger sister were fine, she wanted more. She really missed her friends. I knew...
How I Konmari-ed my SmartPhone Into my Samurai Sword
I love screentime. It has changed the way we do everything about anything. Screentime is powerful. It can connect us with people and ideas all over the world! However, with so many services, apps, and ideas vying for my attention, recently, my time spent staring...
The Way We Talk About Screentime Needs to Change If We Want To Help Our Kids
How do you define screentime? Where does it start and end? Do you define and contain it on the tablet, smartphones or extend it to the computer? What about the television and movies? How about video games? Apps or tools? Is it different for yourself versus your kid?...
Coronavirus Shut Down My Children’s Classrooms — But Not Their Schooling
It would be impossible to estimate the amount of time I spent watching minutes on the clock slowly tick by as I sat behind a desk at school. Ironically, as a mother I watch that same clock tick, waiting for the chaos of my kids to come home.But, this year, both my...
This Little Mental Shift Will Make You Approach Your Kid’s Social Media Use Differently
Recognizing that our reaction to this NEW THING (technology, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) in the context of an OLD THING (telephones, message boards, slam books, etc.) might be the MENTAL SHIFT we need to understand how to talk about THE BEHAVIOR expected from our kids when it relates to screentime.
I Confess I Have Been A Shameful Mom, But Now I Ask Permission
I have a confession.I am a shameless mom. I have posted every conceivable kind of photo of my kids on social media. It started when I became a mom because I just couldn’t believe these humans came out of my body. I have posted them all... The braggy ones: Photos...
Twelve Days of Christmas Keeps on Giving
The holidays are history. The tree is demolished. The ornaments packed away. The wrapping paper is landfill. The only thing that remains is the extra pounds from too many Christmas cookies! In case you missed my "Twelve Days of Christmas" posts of...
I Read 28 Books or 7500+ pages Last Year, Here Is How I Did It!
Last year I had a simple goal to just read more.From November 2018 to December 2019, I read 28 books. That is 7500+ pages (click to see what I read).I’m so freakin’ proud of myself!To say that I wasn’t much of a reader before is an understatement.In...
CLICK…. Is this thing ON?
An empty stage with a microphone. One spotlight.That’s what it feels like to when you “turn on” your website. There is stomach-churning silence. Instinct says you should run. But unfortunately, you can’t. The journey to this stage was like trudging through knee-deep...
