by Andrea Davis | Nov 14, 2018 | All Posts, Pre-Teen, Ages 10 – 12, Preschool, Ages 3-5, School-Age, Ages 6 – 9
Almost two years ago our family moved across the country from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest. Due to the dramatic change in cost of living from one to the other, we knew we would need to cut our home size in half. (Yikes!) With five kids, it was a bit...
by Andrea Davis | Oct 12, 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
Over the past year I’ve read a lot of books, articles, and blog posts about screen time. I’ve tried to balance my reading between theoretical works from experts, as well as practical tips from parents who are in the trenches. Out of everything I’ve read, there is one...
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...
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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 | 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...
