Parenting

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…

Our town's libraries were all closed today due to a bomb threat that was made yesterday. It's the last couple of days of summer for our k-8 schools (and hot!)…

Driving down to Champaign yesterday, I was listening to a Momwell podcast - where guest Eve Rodsky was talking about her new book Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim your Creative…

One of my biggest concerns on this journey of raising children in our technological society, is thinking about how we help our kids become someone authentic, someone true to themselves,…

There is no simple answer to whether or not children should be allowed to use technology, instead, I try to use a series of guiding principles when I am making…