Helping Your Children Study Amidst Distracting Technologies
Recently, my research team observed nearly 300 middle school, high school and university students studying in their homes. To keep it simple, we asked them to study “something important” for only 15...
View ArticleThe TALK Model of Parenting High-Tech Children, Teens and Young Adults
In a typical family system there should be a hierarchy of knowledge and power with the parents at the top and the children at the bottom. When it comes to technology, however, often that hierarchy gets...
View ArticleHow Much Technology Should You Let Your Child Use?
I recently read two articles that struck me in the way they examined the impact of technology on small children. In a New York Times article entitled, “The Child, the Tablet and the Developing Mind”...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Be a Parent and Not a ‘Secret Diary Reader’: A Response to...
When I was a teenager, I remember that my sister, who is two years younger than I, kept a diary that she cleverly hid in her underwear drawer. Being a nosy older brother, and wanting to see if she...
View ArticleGame Changers But Not Brain Changers
Click here to read an original op-ed from the TED speaker who inspired this post and watch the TEDTalk below. In her TEDTalk, Louise Leakey explained how archaeology has informed us about where we came...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need a Digital Detox: You Just Need to Learn to Set Limits and...
Just before I left on an eight-day road trip vacation, most often without a cell signal or wifi, I read with interest Matt Haber’s New York Times article entitled, “A Trip to Camp to Break a Tech...
View ArticleKeeping Your Family ‘Brain Healthy’ in an Always Connected World
Recently, I delivered a daylong workshop to representatives of international schools at a conference in Mumbai, India, hosted by the American School of Bombay. The conference is called ASB Unplugged...
View ArticleOur Obsessive Relationship With Technology
I am an inveterate people watcher, which is probably why I started college thinking that I was going to be a math teacher and ended up getting my degrees in psychology. For the past 30+ years, as I...
View ArticleADHD and Technology: Helping Our Children Reclaim Their Focus and Attention
A recent New York Times piece by Richard A. Friedman entitled “A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D.”caught my eye this past week as I am right in the middle of writing a book chapter about how technology impacts...
View ArticleThe Secret to Helping Your Kids Study Without Distractions
Our study found that if a student checked Facebook just once during the 15-minute study period, he or she had a lower GPA.
View ArticleThe TALK Model of Parenting High-Tech Children, Teens and Young Adults
In a typical family system there should be a hierarchy of knowledge and power with the parents at the top and the children at the bottom. When it comes to technology, however, often that hierarchy gets...
View ArticleHow Much Technology Should You Let Your Child Use?
The critical questions are: Is this bad for our children? Is it wrong to provide them the most up-to-date tools for both entertainment and teaching? Is it wrong to want to see our children smile and...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Be a Parent and Not a ‘Secret Diary Reader’: A Response to...
My suggestion is to be that unique parent that talks to your children about dangers and works with your child from a young age to build their trust. That way, when they receive a communication that...
View ArticleGame Changers But Not Brain Changers
<img alt="2013-01-18-TEDplayvideo.jpg" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2013-01-18-TEDplayvideo.jpg" width="300" height="50" />With technology evolving so rapidly and our brains remaining...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need a Digital Detox: You Just Need to Learn to Set Limits and...
A detox is an interesting idea but, quite honestly, it does not tackle the problem that our brain is often the culprit in setting up a feeling that we must constantly check in with our virtual worlds...
View ArticleKeeping Your Family ‘Brain Healthy’ in an Always Connected World
There is now ample evidence that technology and our busy lives overly stimulate our brains. And most family members are immersed in technology all day long, often for hours on end without a break.
View ArticleOur Obsessive Relationship With Technology
And I find it amusing (and somewhat disconcerting) that people make excuses to escape whoever they are supposed to be spending time with so that they can check in with other people who may not even be...
View ArticleADHD and Technology: Helping Our Children Reclaim Their Focus and Attention
Immediate gratification is most certainly one of the reasons for a child or a teenager not being able to pay attention in school and it is a powerful one. How can school, even when technology is added...
View ArticleSleeping With Technology: Harming Your Brain One Night at a Time
Sadly, most children, teens and adults are not getting close to the recommended night’s sleep and you can see this clearly in futile attempts to sleep in on the weekends to pay off our mounting “sleep...
View ArticleYou Don’t Need a Digital Detox: You Just Need to Learn to Set Limits and...
A detox is an interesting idea but, quite honestly, it does not tackle the problem that our brain is often the culprit in setting up a feeling that we must constantly check in with our virtual worlds...
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