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Being Intentional With Technology: How We Introduced Our Kids to Social Media and Devices
Raising kids in a fast-moving digital world is hard—here’s the intentional plan our family used to make it manageable.
GRWM Videos, Social Media, and the Great Shift Toward a More Sexualized Childhood
As social media platforms evolve, the behavior on those platforms evolves too. The content gets faster, the trends get more extreme, and the pressure to be noticed gets stronger. The line between entertainment, identity, popularity, attention, and sexuality gets blurrier, and our kids are watching all of it.
The Great Shift: Childhood Did Not Move Online Overnight
The Great Shift: Childhood Did Not Move Online Overnight My generation, Gen X, has had the unique experience of growing up almost completely offline, watching the evolution of technology unfold in real time, and now living in an always-connected world. We remember what life felt like before everything had a screen, a password, a profile,…
Kik, Kids, and Online Predators: Why This App Still Matters
Kids need to understand why private messaging with strangers is different from talking to friends. They need to understand why usernames, anonymous profiles, hidden chats, disappearing messages, and secretive conversations can create danger.
Your Child May Not Use ChatGPT, But They Are Still Growing Up With AI
Parents do not need to become AI experts overnight, but we do need to start changing the conversation.
Let Them Be Little: Beauty Trends, Social Media, and Childhood
Now we have new terms entering the world that parents need to understand. Two of them are “Sephora kids” and “cosmeticorexia.”
Attention Residue: Are We Raising Kids Who Never Fully Focus?
I think kids are growing up practicing divided attention almost constantly. They are learning inside environments where it feels normal to bounce between five things at once. Even boredom rarely lasts more than a few seconds before a device fills the silence. The concern is not simply that kids are distracted. The concern is that sustained focus may slowly start feeling unnatural to them.