by Andrea Davis | Sep 13, 2018 | All Posts, Pre-Teen, Ages 10 – 12, School-Age, Ages 6 – 9, Set Your Family Up for Success, Teen, Ages 13 – 18
{Note: This image only shows part of the list!} How do you decide when your child is ready for a cell phone or a personal device? When we started our Family Tech Think Tank we knew we needed to have a discussion with our kids about when the right time would be to...
by Andrea Davis | Sep 7, 2018 | All Posts, Pre-Teen, Ages 10 – 12, Preschool, Ages 3-5, School-Age, Ages 6 – 9, Set Your Family Up for Success, Teen, Ages 13 – 18
How do you adapt your family technology guidelines as your children grow older? As a parent of five children, ranging from a teenager down to a preschooler, I was struggling to know how to give the older children more freedom, without giving them free reign. With this...
by Andrea Davis | Jul 31, 2018 | All Posts, Pre-Teen, Ages 10 – 12, Set Your Family Up for Success, Teen, Ages 13 – 18
After reading No Regrets: Prepping for a Cell Phone, do you think your child may be ready for a phone? Or are you interested to know when the time is right for them to progress to a smartphone, as discussed in Handing Your Child a Cell Phone: A Gradual Four-Phase...
by Andrea Davis | Jun 29, 2018 | All Posts, Device and Phone Options, Pre-Teen, Ages 10 – 12, School-Age, Ages 6 – 9, Set Your Family Up for Success, Teen, Ages 13 – 18
Do you remember when your child was just learning to walk? Or perhaps when they learned to turn a screwdriver? 🙂 (Maybe that was just our kid.) Sometimes we forget that kids are, well, just kids. We forget that when they are learning something new, they still need...
by Andrea Davis | Jun 29, 2018 | All Posts, Pre-Teen, Ages 10 – 12, School-Age, Ages 6 – 9, Set Your Family Up for Success, Teen, Ages 13 – 18
As I talk with parents “just ahead of me” and learn from my own experiences with a teenager, I often hear the words: “I wish I would have waited.” Many parents wish they would have waited a little longer to pass off a cell phone or a personal device to their...