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How to Get Your Teen to Stop Texting While Driving

Teenagers are addicted to texting. They are expected to respond to text messages instantaneously and have no problem putting a stop to whatever it is they are doing in order to reply. This becomes a huge problem when what they are doing is operating a motorized vehicle. Many parents worry about distracted driving, and rightfully…

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Autism and Phone Data

What is phone data? For those few out there who don’t know, phone data is the amount of gigabytes you use when you’re on a device that is connected to the Internet. One thing I learned long ago about my own phone data usage verses my son’s phone data usage (of course, this is ever…

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Technology Terrors and Our Kids

Two events occurred last week in my area that are sure to terrify parents everywhere. First, two Virginia Tech students were charged with kidnapping and killing 13-year-old Nicole Lovell, a Virginia seventh grader who used social media to escape bullying after surviving a liver transplant earlier in her life. Second, also in Maryland, a 22-year-old church…

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Not Just A Skinny Blonde: Technology is For Girls Too

This article is sponsored by Verizon. Verizon is launching a new initiative working to encourage girls’ love of the STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. They made a powerful commercial showing how thesubtle social cues that we send girls such as – “don’t get your dress dirty”, “you’re so pretty” can discourage curiousity, exploration and discovery of the world around them. Our words have an impact that we often don’t think …