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    Get Outside! How Gardening Helps Combat Digital Addiction

    As a child I vividly remember my mother teling me to “get outside!” She would say it was good for me. It did feel good being in the great outdoors even though I didn't understand why.  In today’s digitally-saturated world, there are a myriad of things to do indoors, causing...

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    Create a Technology Roadmap to Help Prepare Your Kids for a Smartphone

    The day you hand over a smartphone to your kids should not be the same day you try to teach them all of the hazards and dangers of using it. As parents, we know this, but there are so many issues to cover with our kids, and so little time....

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    Don’t Do Nothing Just Because You Can’t Do Everything: Five Simple Things You Can Do To Have a Screen-Balanced Home

    Have you ever been so overwhelmed by something that you decide to do nothing? Because you don’t even know where to start? Or because you can’t do everything perfectly? How many of us feel this way when it comes to screen time? I would say a large percentage of us!...

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    Delay the Smartphone and Grab Gabb!

    “Before I was a parent, I swore my kids would never have a tantrum in public with me. Let’s all take a minute to laugh about this together.” — Instagrammer I first became a parent back in 2006, and, boy, I sure was naive about how hard parenting was going...

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    The Need for Connection: Unlimited Connectivity and Its Limiting Effect on Adolescent Relationships

    Have you frequented your favorite restaurant lately? If you have, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary to see couples sitting across from one another inundated with the images on their smartphone. Just a few tables over you’ll notice the same scenario for a family of four. Both the parents,...

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    Setting Boundaries Means You Care

    Kids don’t know this, but they actually want boundaries. As a teen, I never would have admitted this. I remember being frustrated and angry at my parents because I had friends who could do anything they wanted, yet at the same time I felt a sense of security knowing they...

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    Porn Culture: How It is Targeting Our Kids

    I’m going to guess that the majority of us don’t give our kids access to a smartphone because we want to protect them from seeing porn. That’s a great first step, but if you’ve noticed lately our society has become hypersexualized. We’ve talked about the dangers of children and pornography...

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    Digital Driver’s Ed for Your Smartphone Driver

    For most of us, the first time we got behind the wheel is a vivid memory. Whether it was in a parking lot or a quiet side street, it’s easy to remember both where it happened and who we were with. The one thing we all had in common? We...

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    Waiting Is Loving: Social Media and Kids

    As parents, we go to great lengths to protect our children from danger. We double-check seat belts are fastened, teach how smoking and drugs can hurt our bodies, keep matches up high, etc. But what about protecting them from the dangers of social media? There is loads of research out...

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    I Knew Gabb Was the Answer

    For a few years now, my husband and I have talked about what our son's first phone would be like. We knew that we wanted him to have a phone for when he entered Junior High, but I have never felt comfortable with getting my young son a smartphone or...

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    Why Social Media is Not Smart for Middle School Kids

    I really love middle school kids. I have raised four of them! If you have been through middle school parenting, you may have noticed what I see: Strange things seem to happen to a tween’s brain the first day they walk into middle school. One might sum up their main...

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    When all they want for Christmas is a new smartphone

    What do you do when all your kid wants from Santa is a smartphone? Gabb's phone is the top pick of best options for parents to choose from this Christmas season. It's the hottest and safest new phone on the market and parents and kids love it! Read the article...

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    Get Outside! How Gardening Helps Combat Digital Addiction

    Tuesday, 3 March, 2020

    Kelly Deal

    As a child I vividly remember my mother teling me to “get outside!” She would say it was good for...
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    Create a Technology Roadmap to Help Prepare Your Kids for a Smartphone

    Wednesday, 26 February, 2020

    Kristen Buchtel

    The day you hand over a smartphone to your kids should not be the same day you try to teach...
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    Don’t Do Nothing Just Because You Can’t Do Everything: Five Simple Things You Can Do To Have a Screen-Balanced Home

    Tuesday, 11 February, 2020

    April Whiting

    Have you ever been so overwhelmed by something that you decide to do nothing? Because you don’t even know where...
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    Delay the Smartphone and Grab Gabb!

    Tuesday, 4 February, 2020

    Adrienne Principe

    “Before I was a parent, I swore my kids would never have a tantrum in public with me. Let’s all...
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    The Need for Connection: Unlimited Connectivity and Its Limiting Effect on Adolescent Relationships

    Tuesday, 28 January, 2020

    Elise Thrift

    Have you frequented your favorite restaurant lately? If you have, it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary to see couples...
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    Setting Boundaries Means You Care

    Friday, 24 January, 2020

    Inger Erickson

    Kids don’t know this, but they actually want boundaries. As a teen, I never would have admitted this. I remember...
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