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Is Your Teen Begging for BeReal?

Is Your Teen Begging for BeReal?

BeReal gives you a random two-minute window to post a photo of whatever you are doing right then and there. Here’s what you need to know.

Is My Teen Ready for a Cell Phone?

Is My Teen Ready for a Cell Phone?

Is my teen ready for a cell phone? This is the million-dollar question for parents today! There is no single right answer because every family and every teen is different.

We are parents who are still learning, but we’d like to share a few strategies that have helped us make this important decision.

Our Family’s Screen-Free Gift Guide

Our Family’s Screen-Free Gift Guide

After years of storing our TV in the closet, living in a small home, and losing most of our belongings in an extensive house fire, we have a solid idea of which toys and activities are worth keeping around! We hope this list inspires you to create a home where your...

Easy Isn’t Always Best: Take Back the Family Road Trip

Easy Isn’t Always Best: Take Back the Family Road Trip

In our digital era, we often want to avoid boredom, discomfort, and dealing with the hard stuff. I know many families who allow free-reign with electronic devices on road trips for this reason. It’s much easier to hand everyone a device and just let everyone zone out, but if we do this, we miss out on unique opportunities to connect with one another.

Career Guidance: An Opportunity to Connect With Your Teen

Career Guidance: An Opportunity to Connect With Your Teen

Are you struggling to connect with your teen? Are you wanting to help him or her discover strengths and start thinking about a career path? Guest author, Heather Glenn, shares some great ideas to help with career guidance and an exercise to help you work with your teen to discover their strengths.

The Reality of a Virtual Reality

The Reality of a Virtual Reality

Guest author, Spencer Sessions, courageously stepped away from his gaming addiction to create a life of meaning and purpose.

Screen Time Check-In

Screen Time Check-In

As we talked with our teen, we came up with five questions that each of us, (including the parents!), can ask ourselves before we spend any quality time with our phones. You can print this out and put it by your charging station or take a screen shot and save it as your phone’s wallpaper to help you check-in throughout the day.

How to Help Your Teen Transition to a Smartphone

How to Help Your Teen Transition to a Smartphone

As parents we have to decide when (or if) we want our teens to use a smartphone.

We recently worked with our teen as she transitioned from a feature phone (flip phone) to a locked-down smartphone. This idea comes from our four-phase process.

In this post, we share some help on making this transition!

What Are Your Daily Bookends?

What Are Your Daily Bookends?

Darren Hardy, author of The Compound Effect, says the bookends of our days are the key to a successful life. How can we minimize our technology use during the bookends of our daily life?

Tips for Teaching Teens With Technology with The Mom Life Coach

Tips for Teaching Teens With Technology with The Mom Life Coach

Do you teach or work with teenagers in a volunteer or church setting? Are you wondering how to get them to look up from their device and connect with not only their learning, but with the people around them? Our friend, Chelsea, also known as the Mom Life Coach, has some great tips to help!

Printable: Our Four-Phase Process

Printable: Our Four-Phase Process

We have a great printable for you featuring our Four-Phase Process. Print it out, test it out, and consider how you might gradually give your children small amounts of responsibility one step at a time.

No Regrets: Prepping for a Cell Phone

No Regrets: Prepping for a Cell Phone

As I talk with parents “just ahead of me” about screens and technology, I often hear the words: “I wish I would have waited.”