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On Birth & Parenting, ARE We Independent…Yet?
Moms and Dads, Who Is The Boss of You? The Force of Culture on Birth & Parenting Choices: As we celebrate our nation’s independence from oppressive rule, I want to explore an all-encompassing...
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Supermom Has Too Many Choices!
I’m picking up the thread from my last post, about how too much information and too many choices contribute to Supermom feeling overwhelmed rather than sane and centered. In an era when the world...
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Give the Gift of Wonder and Brainpower
Have you seen the commercial where the mom is reading Curious George (off a screen, natch) to her curious young daughter? Then the curious little girl interrupts to ask the screen (Google’s version of...
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How to Trust in a Wired World
Along with a good supply of onesies, I routinely counsel expectant parents to stock up on trust. Parenting is a daunting safari into the unknown, and trust is the anxiety antidote when life outruns the...
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My first birth didn’t feel very empowered. My OB seemed distinctly uninterested in having an empowered birthing patient. I felt meek and under his power. I evolved, my power grew, I switched OBs, and...
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The Debate Over Handheld Devices for Babies & Children
There has been a hurricane of cyber-buzz this past week over a HuffPo piece entitled, “10 Reasons Why Handheld Devices Should Be Banned for Children Under the Age of 12.” It went viral, natch. What I...
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How Boredom Builds Brains… and Screens Can Drain Brains!
(Part 3 of my 5-part series at DrGreene.com) I’m not talking about the deep, serious kind of boredom associated with neglect, poverty and anguish. I’m talking about that “I’m not being distracted /...
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How to Love Your Child’s Summer Vacation
Along with your child’s school summer vacation, the summer season itself brings many natural cues to slow down: the warmth, the longer days (more time = less need to do things fast), and the luscious...
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How to Love Your Child’s Summer Vacation, Pt. 2
In yesterday’s post I proposed the first three of five tips to help you with summer vacation activity ideas. These are meant to ease your mind and equip you with helpful ideas if you’re one of many...
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Digital Dependence & Parental Anxiety: Keeping Trust Alive
Parenting is a daunting safari into the unknown. It is a safari that will routinely lead you beyond the reach of the techno-savvy that has us convinced we can figure out and control everything in our...
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Digital Dependence: Is This Legislation a Solution?
Concern over the effects of digital dependence is clearly something you share with me if you’re following these posts. One of the most pressing of these concerns is how it impacts the...
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Birthing & Vaccines: Are We *REALLY* Independent?
Anyone with a pulse and a Facebook feed knows that America is a country painfully divided — about our leadership, our economy, our values and place in the world. We’re also deeply divided over our...
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Digital Dependence: A (Funny) Picture’s Worth 1000 Bloggy Words
Today’s a quickie, as I’ve just returned from a week on the other coast, celebrating my son’s 30th birthday. I’m leaning upon BoredPanda today, and their “20 Satirical Illustrations Show Our Addiction...
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Digital Dependence: Is the Smartphone Generation Ruined?
Today I’m spotlighting an essential article about the current smartphone generation in the September issue of The Atlantic: “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” The author* is Jean Twenge, a...
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Digital Mastery: Parents, You Have the Power!
My main concern in this exploration is the effect of digital dependence upon our social intelligence. You see, fostering robust development of the brain circuitry responsible for social intelligence...
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Digital Dependence: Our Ridiculous Addiction?
This whole issue of how entranced and attached we are to our smartphones — and to the social media they link us to — is soooo challenging and touchy, isn’t it? I think because at some level we suspect...
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iMPATIENCE and iMPULSIVENESS: Deadly Effects of Wired Life?
This one’s personal, folks. It’s one thing to recognize the discouraging association between smartphones and impatience, and it’s a whole other thing to experience that impatience on a daily basis in...
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Master of Your iDomain: Who Controls Your Attention?
At the end of each issue of my favorite weekly news digest The Week is a 2-page section called “The last word.” It features a substantive (polite word for “long”) piece of extraordinary writing. In...
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Wired Wednesdays: Curses, My Phone Won’t Wink
My ex-husband*, our two grown kids and I recently switched from AT&T to Verizon for our cell service. [*A marriage may end, but a family cellular plan goes on!] In the process I got a new free LG...
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Wired Wednesday: Saving Our Smartphone Brains
When my book Parenting for Peace came out in 2012, the handheld device revolution hadn’t yet reached its tipping point, so smartphone brain wasn’t yet a thing. The screens I discussed in my book were...
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