Intimacy Education Vs Sex Education
By Julia Bernards I was disgusted. Sitting in that plastic chair at a group desk with several boys, I’d just been subjected to a lesson on the mechanics of sex in our Home Ec class. I was assiduously avoiding eye contact with the snickering boys, and wondering if the...
What You Need to Know About Your Kids’ Anonymous Apps
By Amanda Grossman-Scott Whisper. Secret. Shush. What do these words have in common? They all imply secrecy and privacy. They are also all names of apps currently available for anonymous information sharing as well. AfterSchool is an app that has been banned from the...
Teaching Your Children Self-Respect and Respect for Others
By Mary Ann Benson, M.S.W., L.S.W. Respect is defined as a feeling or understanding that someone or something is important, serious, etc., and should be treated in an appropriate way. (Merriam Webster, 2014) There are two critical components of respect that children...
Spying On Your Child: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
By Caron C. Andrews Our children are growing up in a virtual world that simply didn’t exist when most of us were kids. Do you know how to work all the devices and gaming systems in your home? We all need to. We also need to know what our children are involved in...
Creating Family Memories Outside of Screen Time
By Tawny Redford The typical American family eating dinner in front of the television has become an embarrassingly familiar version of ‘family time’ in our culture. Instead of our family dialogue centered on each other, our attention has pivoted towards our own media...
How Gratitude Empowers Kids
By Tawny Redford One morning while driving the kids to school, (in my typical ‘out of body experience’ mode that I function in every day before 8:00am), I noticed I wasn’t the only one irritable and impatient; my kids were riding in my ‘negativity side car.’ I...
Gratitude: Teaching Your Child to See What Really Matters
By Tawny Redford Social media is flooded with people filling their gratitude quotas during this time of year. You won’t hear me complaining about not having enough; I was the kid with holes in her shoes. It is a massive understatement to say that I am grateful for my...
Holiday Tech Gift Guide-What Parents Need to Know
By Amanda Grossman-Scott When a 12 year old British boy’s parents found that he’d been watching pornography on his cell phone, they put a stop to it immediately. Although these parents knew enough to do the right thing in taking away the boy’s phone, what they didn’t...
Los rituales diarios que puede traer a su familia más cercana
Por Tawny Redford Hay cosas que hacemos a diario que se sienten a veces mundano y laboriosas. ¡Está bien! ¡Que lo escucharon aquí primero! No hay una gran cantidad de pizazz en el cepillado de los dientes, lavar la ropa, o incluso levantarse de la cama algunas...
