by Andrea Davis | Jan 8, 2019 | All Posts, Recommended Resources, Set Your Family Up for Success, Teen, Ages 13 – 18
Do you have an established morning and evening routine? Have you tried leaving tech out of those routines? Your morning and evening routines are the bookends of your day. Have you ever read The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy?* Hardy teaches that success in...
by Chelsea | Dec 5, 2018 | All Posts, Teen, Ages 13 – 18
A few weeks ago I connected with another mom who is also helping parents to have the tools they need to raise their kids in the digital age! Her name is Chelsea Brown and she runs themomlifecoach.com. As Chelsea and I FaceTimed :), she mentioned that she and her...
by Andrea Davis | Oct 31, 2018 | All Posts, Pre-Teen, Ages 10 – 12, Set Your Family Up for Success, Teen, Ages 13 – 18
To print this image, just right-click and “Save image as…” and download to your device and print! If you’ve read our article, Feature Phone to Smart Phone: A Four-Phase Process, then you are familiar with this progression. This image came to my...
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...
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...