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I once spent three weeks without a phone. In that time I was...challenged. It was hard not to be able to call or text my friends and family, but after awhile I saw some good in the experience as [...]

Teenagers! Just that one word evokes many different responses, doesn’t it? I only have one teenager so I’m not sure how qualified that makes me to talk about them. And truth be told, she's a [...]

We’ve seen it and heard it all too many times: Kids and adults are spending too much time on their tech devices. All you have to do is a Google search about technology-use and you’ll find enough [...]

This article will self-destruct in 10 seconds. Well, not really - but ever notice how our kids can relationally "self-destruct" is less than 10 seconds based on how we handle social media with [...]

The Internet is rotting the world. Okay...so that's an exaggeration. Yes I love Facebook. Yes I panic when I accidentally leave my smartphone at home. And yes I just Googled how to unclog my [...]

Firewalls. Smartphones. Snapchat. Seriously--our parents NEVER had to deal with this stuff. As if parenting wasn't hard enough, now we have to monitor sophisticated technology that frankly our [...]

This summer my family and I moved from Loveland, Colorado to Berlin, Germany. Going into it, we knew there would be some pretty major changes and that we’d be challenged in new ways. One of the [...]

"ARGH!" My six-year-old son had his face in the carpet. "ARGH!" his younger brother echoed, copying his sibling. "What is it, guys?" I asked. "Why do we only get a half-hour for video games?" the [...]

"Look over there, kids. You see that cocoon? That caterpillar is rebranding." - 21st Century Parenting I was at a wedding not that long ago, enjoying some face-to-face conversation with the [...]