This post is sponsored by Be Internet Awesome When my kids were preschoolers, many of our conversations centered around kindness and friendship. We read books about friendship, talked about what it meant to be kind, modeled how to be a good friend to others, and seized teachable moments to turn teary playground playdates into positive…
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How YouTube Personal Time Watched Profile Helps Families Manage Viewing Time
YouTube can be a blessing and a curse. On one hand, there is endless content to watch that sparks creativity and new ideas but on the other, it can be a deep rabbit hole where kids can spend hours without even realizing it as one video quickly leads into another. Last week the company announced…
How to Use Your Safety 1st HD WiFi Baby Monitor to Communicate with Big Kids
This post is sponsored by Safety 1st With the start of high school on the horizon for our oldest and our youngest solidly embedded in his middle school years, it’s been a long time since I thought about baby monitors. Fourteen years ago the three piece system that we used to listen in on our…
A Guide to Unplugged Summer Fun to Help Get Kids of All Ages Away from Screens
This post was written in partnership with D.C. Mosquito Squad and contains affiliate links We want to breathe a sigh of relief when we abandon school year routines but in between vacation, camp, and pool time, summer can bring its own challenges especially when we’re trying to get our kids to unplug and go outside. The lure…
Playing Survive the Sound Teaches Kids About Conservation in a Fun Way
This post is sponsored by Survive the Sound with Long Live the Kings At their core, kids are caring beings who are naturally interested in caring for the Earth. It’s not hard to teach even the youngest ages to care for our natural resources like air, water, soil, minerals, fuels, plants, and animals so all…
Why You Need to Talk to Your Kids About Underage Drinking and How to Do It
Kids have a lot of questions, including questions about alcohol. Since April is Alcohol Responsibility Month, now is a great time to start a conversation about underage drinking but if you’re not quite sure how to start the conversation, I’m here to help thanks to advice learned from working with Responsibility.org for the past four…
Why You Need to Set Up YouTube Parental Controls
With YouTube in the news so much recently, it’s tempting to cut kids off from the content they love but what does that really accomplish? Our kids will always find a way to sneak the content we don’t want them to access. Instead, take some time to get acquainted, or reacquainted, with YouTube parental controls….
How to Get Your Kids a Real Smartphone for Under $150
This post is sponsored by ZTE If 2018 might be the year you get your child a phone, it’s possible to get them a smartphone without breaking the bank. Look beyond their wish list of devices and ignore their pleas to keep up with their friends in favor of devices by manufacturers who offer phones…
Feeling Left Out When Your Kids Play Video Games? Do these 3 things!
This post is sponsored by Best Buy When our kids were little, their holiday wish lists made sense because they were made up of things we understood but as they get older, items on their lists can suddenly feel like a foreign language. In the blink of an eye, Legos, Star Wars, ponies, and princesses…
Teaching Tough Topics: 5 Tips for Talking to Kids About Disabilities
This post is sponsored by Corning® Gorilla® Glass There’s nothing that pushes the limit of being human like an Ironman Triathlon. Consisting of a 2.4 mile swim, a 112 mile bike ride, followed by a full marathon (26.2 miles) completed one right after the other in the course of a single day, any Ironman race is…
