Quick And Easy Tech Solutions To Help Squash Marital Squabbles
Marriage produces its share of happiness, but it also supplies its share of arguments, as well - and very often the same ones. Whether you and your spouse don’t agree on how much to set aside in savings, where to cut back to save on bills, who does more housework, or sincere ways to boost [Read More]
NekNominate: The Deadly Social Media Drinking Game
While we try to keep things positive and upbeat here at Dot Complicated, we also strive to keep you in-the-know on trends that may be keeping parents across the nation up at night. Around the world, teens and young adults have found a new way to coerce each other into drinking large quantities of alcohol– [Read More]
Are All Your ‘Friends’ Keeping You From Getting Anything Done?
Ever notice how we've become good at building connected technology and broadcasting status updates but we struggle staying connected to the people and goals that matter most to us in life? Looking back it's easy to see how this happened. Three hundred years ago, if you decided to be adventurous and build a startup in the Wild [Read More]
10 Mini-Challenges for Unplugging This Weekend
Weekends are always a great opportunity to practice some mindfulness around how we use technology. People often ask us for easy tips on unplugging, so we listed are few mini challenges you can try over the weekend. Some of you will find these super easy (“I do this all the time anyway!”), and others will [Read More]
You Have To Do The Hard Things
You have to make the call you’re afraid to make. You have to get up earlier than you want to get up. You have to give more than you get in return right away. You have to care more about others than they care about you. You have to fight when you are already injured, [Read More]
Sometimes, Being A Good Mom Means Giving Up A Little Control
Before I was a mom, I thought I could control most everything in my life, and for the most part I did. I was the lead in the school play, the president of student council, and the girlfriend to the dreamy boy who sat in front of me in math. But “luck is the residue of design,” as [Read More]
What I Saw When I Finally Looked Up From My Phone
I only have a handful of pictures from our family vacation last week. We escaped the “Snowmageddon” that dumped more than seventeen inches on the Northeast for what is now our annual trek to Florida in February. The weather was as close to perfect as we could have hoped for, the sunsets were spectacular, both of my children [Read More]
This App Beautifully Consolidates Your Loyalty Cards
I’m a hoarder. A receipt hoarder. Last week my friends saw me pull out my wallet and they almost fell off their chairs. There were receipts spilling out of it every which way; it was quite embarrassing. This past weekend, I made a conscious effort to clean that wallet of mine. And let me tell you, it felt [Read More]