THE DIGITAL PARENT
Tips and Tricks for Parenting in the 21st Century

This tip is from: TheGuardian.com

Click the link above to see the top picture books of 2019!
 

THE DIGITAL PARENT
Tips and Tricks for Parenting in the 21st Century

This tip is from: NPR.com

Author, Jordan Shapiro, argues that parents aren't spending enough screen time with our kids.

Click the link NPR.com to read the interesting article.

This tip is from: ChildMind.org

This tip is from: CoolMomTech.com

This tip is from: Life in Pleasantville
5 tips for raising Teenager in the Digital Age
1. Practice a “Resting Parent Face”
2. Find their Currency, Then Use It
3. Be the Cool Mom, Not the Regular Mom
4. Have their Friends over, a lot
5. Define your Boundaries

 

This tip is from: The Bead by Bead App

In honor of the month of the rosary here is a fun app to help pray the rosary with your children! 

This tip is from:picklebums.com

Instead of always telling our kids what they can’t do on their devices, how about we offer them some ideas of things they can do on their devices. How about we find some apps for tweens that are fun, creative, and maybe even a little educational!

10 apps for tweens: 

1. Minecraft

2. Video Star

3. Garage Band

4. Little Alchemy

5. Sushi Monster

6. Color Switch

7. Land Sliders

8. Stop Motion Studio

9. Inventioneers

10. Disney Crossy Road

This tip is from PsychologyToday.com:

"The operative word in raising healthy children in this often-times unhealthy digital world they are growing up in is balance. A nutritional analogy works well here. A balanced nutritional diet doesn’t mean 50 percent healthy food and 50 percent junk food. Rather, a balanced diet involves ensuring that your children get adequate nutrition from all of the major food groups while allowing them periodic treats.

The same holds true for your children’s diet of technology. You first need to make sure that your children get the proper “nutrition” they need in their lives, meaning offering them a psychological, emotional, intellectual, social, physical, and spiritual “diet” that will fuel their vigorous development, in addition to fostering healthy self-identity, values, thinking, relationships, and life.

Once this “nourishment” is in place and your children are growing strong mentally and physically, you can then introduce other “foods,” namely, technology, that may or may not be healthy." 

This tip is fromChildMind.org: 

"E-Cigarettes and Vapes. E-cigarettes are now the most frequently used tobacco product among adolescents — some 2.1 million middle and high school students were e-cigarette users in 2017.”

Mrs. Giron says: Now with these vape companies marketing more directly to our younger children, there are more and more  students trying out this new form of smoking. It can be scary for parents because some vapes look like everyday objects such as USB drives!