In an earlier post, I talked about cell phone options and especially options if you wish to delay giving your kids a smartphone for as long as possible. Here’s one…

As the holiday season gets into full swing, one of the biggest questions that parents with kids of a certain age is whether or not to give in to the…

Thanksgiving weekend is just wrapping up here in the USA, and while it is not without a very real and problematic history that as an immigrant I’m still working out…

I recently read (ok, listened to in the car) The Parent Trap:  How to stop overloading parents and fix our inequality crisis by Nate Hilger which is a very clear…

This one is hard. My sister asked me what I thought about sharing photos of your children on social media and, like many other topics I blog about, there’s no…

A friend recently asked me to write a blog post about kids using technology while at a restaurant. I've gone around on this topic for a while... not entirely sure…

While a lot of the time I write as a mom - I'm also a professor of education who reads new research on technology and kids for fun (ok, well,…

It's a Sunday afternoon, and the perfect weather to be outside with my little one, taking a bike ride to the park or something equally wholesome. But the thought of…