I know writing this might not make me the coolest kid at the lunch table. I know many of you may not agree with me on this. But I want to discuss it anyway.
I don’t think young children should have access to smartphones [Read More]
By Amy Heinz
As a mom of three kids, I’m no stranger to the word “playdate”. But, since my older two kids are sports-obsessed boys, who happen to invite kindred spirits over to play, I haven’t really had to give much thought to how I entertain [Read More]
By Kari Riedel.
There are many alarming statistics about the learning loss that occurs when kids leave for summer vacation (aka Summer Slump.)
One EASY way to counter this is to encourage your kids to read every day. For some families, that’s easy peasy. For others, that sounds like a [Read More]
One of the worst parenting mistakes I ever made was to give my 8-year-old daughter my old iPhone “just because.” She had been asking – begging – for months. “EVERY other kid has one/I need to be able to contact you in case of emergency/I’ll only [Read More]
iPads aren’t evil. They are nifty little gadgets, I think we can all agree. After all, tablets have saved many travelling parents from descending into outright madness. It’s a fact.
Yet the key may not lie solely in moderation as it does in strategic timing.
By Angella Dykstra
Last Sunday I sat down at my laptop to pay our bills. I logged into my credit card account to get the balance payable (We put everything on our MasterCard and pay it off monthly, because I like free groceries). The total alarmed me, and [Read More]
Let me first preface this post with a disclaimer: I love Netflix and the freedom of binge-watching whatever I want when I score some free time. I don’t schedule my Netflix fix; it’s usually a situation of [Read More]
As the school year begins, your kids are probably wishing for the hottest new devices. But students need more than the latest tablet or smartphone, and it makes sense to step off the beaten path and find technology that will enhance their school experience. Here are [Read More]
Right now, my youngest child is a precocious three-year old. While she can talk up a storm and has a rather impressive vocabulary (a gift of being the third child, it seems), one of my favorite things about the way she talks is when she [Read More]
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