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Today I explore the huge range of emotions that kids and teens experience from interactions online. It is so important to start a conversation about these emotions, so they can learn to better cope with painful situations elicited from internet interactions, be it small or big.
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Today I share ways teens help reduce screen time for themselves. Everything from apps they use to hide it from themselves to purposely getting grounded from their phone.
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Knowing how to lovingly and effectively be with your kids and teens as they experience difficult emotions and display challenging behaviors is immensely complicated.
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Why the sequel to Screenagers? Adolescence is an emotionally turbulent time and yet there are many ways that schools and parents can give teens proven skills to better handle the turbulence.
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There is a myth in our society that is pervasive and dangerous: challenging times need to be personal times and adversity in our families needs to stay private.
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When your child’s homework assignment is online it can be an immense challenge for them to stay on task. Today I lay out several strategies to help.
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I am excited to give some really important updates on how the Away For The Day movement is going and to offer new free resources.
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Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER: Uncovering Skills for Stress Resilience, a new movie coming in October. Stress, Anxiety and Depression and the impact of screen time and social media has on our youth’s mental wellbeing.
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Before I put on my clinical hat and tell you lots of things I have found interesting about sleep research these days, I want to mention what some parents I have spoken with have told me. They tell me that their kids have devices in their bedrooms and their children are getting good about not using them by a certain hour. And my response is YES! AND … although this is probably true, once they hit the preteen and teen years and perhaps a boyfriend or girlfriend comes into the picture, or say another drama has really hit the road, or… – resisting devices can become impossible. (Not to mention they are tired so executive function, i.e. willpower and self-control goes down exponentially).
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Facebook and Instagram told The Telegraph newspaper earlier this month that they would ban images that promote or glamorize eating disorders, particularly photos that promote self-harm.
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What do our kids think about video games in terms of fostering connectedness? And what ideas do they have about how a game can address helping people improve their lives? Today I look at some of the upsides of video games.
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It is with such a heavy heart that I am sharing this piece I wrote again about how to talk to our kids and teens about horrible news. The internet and social media make it essential that we get in front of these conversations quickly.
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I am impressed by the number of tweens and teens who tell me they feel bad about spending a lot of time on screens. These young people say things like "I hate that I wasted the day away."
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It is very common for teens to have two Instagram accounts or even three or four. Their main, public-facing one is referred to as their Rinsta (as in Real + Instagram). Their second account is called their Finsta (Fake + Instagram).
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People often ask whether reading on an e-reader counts as screen time. In today’s TTT I explore this from all sides.
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Both day and sleep-away camps provide great opportunities for kids to unplug, connect face-to-face with people of many different ages and learn new skills.
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Last week I wrote about how to reset rules for summer. Here are some rules that people have generously posted on Facebook in response to this question we posted last week: “What are the summer screen time rules in your house?”
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Summer’s wide open time spans can heighten battles over technology use. This is the perfect time to revisit your family rules and see what’s working and what’s not and come up with summer guidelines.
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