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My Kids Get Zero Privacy With Technology—Because it’s My Job to Keep Them Safe

This phone belongs to my 14-year-old daughter. It’s charging on my kitchen counter. At 9 p.m., every single night, her phone shuts itself down and…

Each school night, somewhere between 8:30 and 9 pm, my three teenagers begrudgingly leave their phones on what I lovingly refer to as my containment…

My grandma smoked her first cigarette when she was 11. Seriously. That sounds shocking to us now, of course. It actually kind of makes me giggle,…

Dear son, You saved up your money to buy your first phone and I know you are super excited to finally join your friends online doing all the things…

Dear every person whose path I just came across, I am not calling you out or judging you. I swear I’m not. I’ve been there. I’ve done that. I…

I read an article recently called The Dangers of Distracted Parenting. While I don’t usually subscribe to fears about how we’re ruining our kids…