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Getting a Cell Phone for a Child in Summer 2012?
The Techlicious blog features an information-filled post, with resources for parents who want to learn more about features and limits-setting as they go about considering whether to purchase a cell...
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Are Teens Moving Away from Facebook?
Take a few minutes to read Some Teens Aren’t Liking Facebook as Much as Older Users, a May 30, 2012 business article in the Los Angeles Times. Facebook’s growth is slowing, and many teens, after...
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Getting to Know Instagram – Links to Bring Adults Up to Speed
In a matter of weeks last spring quite a few older elementary and middle school children whom I know jumped on the Instragram bandwagon, and they continue to have fun with it. The social networking...
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Needed: 2013 Digital Rules-of-the-Road for New Smart Devices
After the December holidays lots of digital kids are using new digital devices. Each new digital gadget requires that parents update or introduce a family digital device action plan — akin to the...
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Mom Writes Phone Contract for Middle School Son
Note: Please check out my Digital Contracts and and Agreements Page if you want to learn more about this topic. Take a look at a terrific letter about cell phone conduct, appropriately written for a...
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How Quickly Do New Apps Gain Kids’ Attention?
As we get ready to return to school for the 2014-15 academic year, my thoughts turn toward the digital life changes that I’ll observe in the lives of my 21st Century students when we come together in...
View ArticleThinking About Digital Life in 2017? Consider Simon Sinek’s Ideas
As you think about parenting or teaching digital natives in 2017, check out this presentation, Millennials in the Workplace, by Simon Sinek, an author and business consultant who writes on business,...
View ArticleYour Phone Knows a Lot About You: Even When You Think You’ve Secured It
Those of us who want to maintain a modicum of privacy in our digital and mobile phone lives, not to mention our 21st Century kids’ lives, may be interested in a question answered by writer J.D....
View ArticleExercise & Phones — Why Do People Do It?
There are times when cell phones should be put away. Shouldn’t exercise time be one of those times? I walk several miles almost every day, sometimes outside and sometimes in, and no matter where I am,...
View ArticleDigital Device Time Off
How much time do you spend on your phone? How much of that is necessary and how much is diversion? Do you pick up your phone when you suddenly have nothing to do? How about at a meal? Do you use your...
View ArticleKTRK-TV Lists 14 Apps that Parents of Teens Should Learn More About
It’s been some time since I’ve discussed specific mobile phone apps on MediaTechParenting, but a few days ago, KTRK-TV, an ABC.com affiliate, posted a list of fourteen of them and encouraged parents to...
View ArticlePhone Calls Are Becoming Intimidating
The other day I was sitting in a group talking about mobile phone calls. Every single person expressed frustration about the number of fraudulent phone calls that ring up on any given day. While the...
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