This column continues the series on setting limits on your kid’s access to and use of social media and the internet. The topic for this column is cell phones. It is the second part of the expectations and recommendations for kids in grades 7 and 8. If strategies or information have been covered in previous columns from earlier ages, you …
Developmental Stages of Access to Social Media Grades 7-8, Part I
This column continues the series on setting limits on your kid’s access to and use of social media and the internet at different ages. The focus of this column is on the expectations and recommendations for kids in grades 7 and 8. If strategies or information have been covered in previous columns from earlier ages, you will be referred back …
Developmental Stages of Access to Social Media Grades 5-6 Part II
This column continues the series on setting limits on social media and the internet at different ages. This is the second part of a discussion on the expectations for kids in grades 5 and 6. The focus of this column will be recommendations for cell phones, video games and social media accounts. Cell Phones. It is really difficult for a …
Developmental Stages of Access to Social Media Grades 5-6, Part I
This column continues the series on setting limits on your kid’s access to and use of social media and the internet at different ages. The focus of this column is on the expectations for kids in grades 5 and 6. The focus of this column will be on recommendations for kids this age. When particular strategies or information have been …
5K Run as Family Fun
Every month of the year, there is at least one 5K run in the greater Nashville metropolitan area (as there is in any moderate to large city). Take a look. These events are a great opportunity to get the collective family butt up and moving. In the interest of full disclosure, I hate running. I also hate exercise but I …
Developmental Stages of Access to Social Media Grades 1-4 (part 2)
Video games. Pay very close attention to the messages your kid will get from the video games they play. Video games are programmed. That means someone has decided what the appropriate, reasonable or desirable response should be to each and every situation the character encounters. Someone else is shaping your kid’s values, over and over again. Kids should only play …
Developmental Stages of Access to Social Media Grades 1-4 (part 1)
It’s 2013, do you know how where your kid is (on the world wide web)? Elementary school children are not ready for full and unfettered access to the internet or social media. Their judgment is limited. They are cognitively, social and psychologically naïve. They are susceptible to flawed logic and deception by others. This makes them gullible. They need to …
Developmental Stages of Access to Social Media
OK, I’m going out on a limb here. There is a lot being said and written about kids and social media. The problem is that there is precious little specific guidance given on how to decide what is best for kids of different ages. Here is my attempt to wade into the discussion. This column will propose a system for …
More Questions (for your teenager) from Steubenville, Ohio
The previous column presented questions to generate a conversation between you and your teenager about issues raised by the rape of a teenage girl in Steubenville, Ohio. The questions continue. Responsibility Whose fault is it when someone is attacked? What if they were saying really insulting things to the person who attacked them? What if they were walking around in …
Questions (for your teenager) from Steubenville, Ohio
“Many of the things we learned during this trial that our children were saying and doing were profane, were ugly . . .[Parents need] to have discussions about how you talk to your friends, how you record things on the social media so prevalent today and how you conduct yourself when drinking is put upon you by your friends.” Judge …