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Reflections on 2016’s Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day

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Earlier this year, former White Sox ringer, Adam LaRoche, retired from baseball—and a $13 million-dollar-a-year salary—after being told his 14-year-old son could no longer be in the locker room with him. This expensive decision brought up, once again, the impossibility of a complete 50-50 work / [Read More]

April 29th, 2016|Fam|

Social Media’s Impact on Modern Parenting

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It’s no secret that we are living in an increasingly digital society. This is a beautiful advancement, enhancing our lives in ways unimaginable a decade ago. We use our smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices to log on and communicate wirelessly with our friends and family [Read More]

April 4th, 2016|Fam|

Top 5 Baby & Parenting Apps

The Bump | Week-by-Week Pregnancy and Newborn Tracker – By The Knot Inc.

the-bumpThis is a true gift for all the pregnant ladies and current mothers. The Bump offers real-time parenting advice through a feed of content personalized to the [Read More]

February 5th, 2016|Fam|

Top 5 Digital Dad Apps

asian-dad-and-daughterUN Foundation Social Good Fellow, co-author of Content Rules, and father of two, C.C. Chapman is a self-proclaimed Digital Dad and proud of it.

“Having two teenagers in the house, tech is a big part of our lives.”

Here are C.C.’s Top 5 favorite Digital Dad [Read More]

January 16th, 2016|Fam|

The Bump Best of Baby Tech Awards

owlet-monitorOwlet Baby Monitor, The Bump Best of Baby Tech Audience Award Winner

The Bump is one of the largest pregnancy and parenting brands for Millennials, providing everything one needs to know about raising a baby through different websites, apps, and smart devices and Thursday at CES, The Bump, [Read More]

January 8th, 2016|Fam|

Apps for the Holiday Season

holiday appsThe kids are out of school, the presents all will soon be played with—what’s a family to do?? Here are a few family-friendly apps to use to keep your holidays stress free!

CUT THE ROPE: HOLIDAY GIFT (Free on iOS; Original version only FREE on Android)— [Read More]

December 25th, 2015|Fam|

5 Must-Have Apps for Moms

Mompreneurs Kate Nowlan and Kimberly Caccavo of the for-women, by-women athletic apparel brand, GRACEDBYGRIT, gave Dot Complicated their Top 5 must-have mom apps

  1. Teamsnap — (iOS & Android; Free) Track where and when the kids’ sporting events are.
  2. Aeries — (iOS only; Free) Check the kids’ grades to make they’re where they should be.
  3. Kindle[Read More]
November 13th, 2015|Fam|

Radio Recap: Mompreneurs

Balancing the stresses of running your own company while raising a family is no easy feat. Kimberly Caccavo and Kate Nowlan are co-founders of GRACEDBYGRIT, an athletic apparel line designed, built, and run by women for women. Aimed for use on both land and at sea, all of the GRACEDBYGRIT apparel [Read More]

November 11th, 2015|Fam|

Grandparents Day Tech

GRANDPARENTSMy in-laws (and the only surviving grandparents to my children) live states away but are very interested in being involved and staying connected to our kids so much so that during every visit with the grandparents, my kids will spend time giving an iPhone [Read More]

September 13th, 2015|Fam|

Radio Recap: Back-to-School Tech

remind-appLast year families with two children or more averaged around $650 on back-to-school items. But for 2015 it’s already been estimated that consumers are cutting back, averaging out to about $207 per student—down from $244 in 2014. While U.S. consumers are estimated to spend about $68 [Read More]

August 12th, 2015|Fam|