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Parents & Screentime

The Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute recently released a study examining teenager's screentime. The study surveyed 1600 adolescents ages 11-18 in America. The findings were staggeringly high across the board, averaging a...

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Celebrating Christmas With The Whole Family

You may be looking forward to welcoming your grandchildren into your home for Christmas, or you might be looking for ways to focus the chaos of having your children home from school for winter break. No matter what your situation is, in the midst of...

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Teens & Smartphones

A boarding school in Massachusetts recently banned all smartphones from their premises during the school week. This unprecedented move was initially met with a lot of pushback from students and teachers. However, after the ban went into...

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Ditching American Girl

American Girl is not the same company that you may have once known and loved. While the company formerly promoted stories of friendship, love, adventure and patriotism, the content released in recent years has become more and more "woke."...

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Disney's Thanksgiving Flop

Traditionally, Disney has owned the movie theater box office over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. This Thanksgiving weekend, Disney released Strange World, which turned out to be a box office flop. Disney is set to lose about 100 million...

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Self-Harm & Social Media

Researchers from Rutgers University and Network Contagion Research Institute recently released a study that found self-harm posts on social media increased by 500% between October 2021 and October 2022. More and more, teens are sharing their...

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A Guide For Single Mothers of Boys

Millions of single mothers find themselves in the difficult position of raising boys alone. Many of those boys are at risk of falling behind in school or repeating the patterns of their own absent or negligent fathers. Single mothers, who...

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Brain Changes with Fatherhood

New research from neuroscientists at the University of Southern California found that a man's brain changes significantly when he becomes a dad. They found that the cortex, the part of the brain that is responsible for high-level...

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iPhone Updates for Parents

This fall, Apple released the iOS 16 update. Along with basic fixes and improvements, it also included updates for the iPhone's screen time parental controls making them more accessible and easy to use! Apple moved the "Family Sharing"...

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Best Phones for Kids

When it comes to children and technology, it is so important to be an engaged parent. The internet is a dangerous place for children, vulnerable to predators and unsafe content. While protecting kids from the dangers of having a phone is best, there...

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