As grown women we send a lot of mixed messages to our daughters, “Do I look fat in this dress?” “I’ll just have a salad, I’m on a diet.” When I hear mothers say these things around their daughter of any age, I just want to scream. And, I’m afraid it happens more often than [...]
Our house is a “dead zone” this week. It’s finals week for both teens – the 8th grader and the 10th grader. It’s been nice to have a quiet house for a change but the process of studying (and the preparation of the materials for studying) made me consider the implications of technology use and [...]
This week I tuned in to see a segment on the Today Show about teenagers who participated in an “experiment” wherein they did not use their cell phones, computers, iPods and video games for 10 days. I thought the result was fairly predictable..the kids learned to re-connect with their family, they did more homework [...]
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