27 10, 2013

Latest News: Interesting Article about the Rising Tide of Anti-intellectualism

By | October 27th, 2013|Categories: Latest News|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

Here's a very interesting article about how anti-intellectualism is becoming the new elitism in which I am quoted.

22 07, 2013

Is a Media-filled Life Leaving Your Children Unprepared for Real Life?

By | July 22nd, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Beyond the specific areas in which you need to prepare your children for this crazy new world and, as I have shown, in which popular culture and technology is not helping you, there is an overriding way you can best ready your children for what lies ahead. You need to prepare them for life. You [...]

3 06, 2013

Feed Your Children a Balanced “Diet” of Technology

By | June 3rd, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

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 [...]

11 04, 2013

Is Big Media Slowly Killing Our Children?

By | April 11th, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Your children’s physical health is the foundation for everything they become and do. As corporeal beings, they, like the rest of humanity, are at the mercy of the fitness of their bodies to handle the ordinary challenges and extraordinary demands that are placed on them during childhood and beyond. You are responsible for ensuring that [...]

1 04, 2013

Face-to-Face Time = Healthier Children

By | April 1st, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , |0 Comments

A great NY Times article describing research demonstrating the importance of face-to-face time in children connecting with others and developing relationships. What's fascinating about this article is that it doesn't just explain the importance of "real" connection with other at  psychological, emotional, and social levels, but rather its role biologically and even neurologically in our [...]

5 03, 2013

Parenting: Is Technology Preventing Two Key Ingredients for Kids’ Relationships?

By | March 5th, 2013|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |1 Comment

Selflessness and empathy are two of the most important ingredients for children to develop healthy relationships. Selflessness involves the capacity for children to place the concerns of others appropriately ahead of their own. It allows others to sense that, whatever children do, their interests will be considered. Empathy is the ability for children to understand [...]

10 12, 2012

Parenting: Are Your Children Overloaded with Information?

By | December 10th, 2012|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , |1 Comment

The Internet, and all of the new computer and communication technology that has sprung from it, have been a boon to the information age, making information available at children’s fingertips instantaneously. The sheer volume of information now accessible online is staggering; there are around 50 billion pages on the Web. Information continues to become more available [...]

3 12, 2012

How Technology is Changing the Way Children Think and Focus

By | December 3rd, 2012|Categories: Parenting, Technology|Tags: , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Thinking. The capacity to reflect, reason, and draw conclusions based on our experiences, knowledge, and insights. It’s what makes us human and has enabled us to communicate, create, build, advance, and become civilized. Thinking encompasses so many aspects of who our children are and what they do, from observing, learning, remembering, questioning, and judging to innovating, arguing, deciding, and acting. There is also little doubt that all of the new technologies, led by the Internet, are shaping the way we think in ways obvious and subtle, deliberate and unintentional, and advantageous and detrimental The uncertain reality is that, with this new technological frontier in its infancy and developments emerging at a rapid pace, we have neither the benefit of historical hindsight nor the time to ponder or examine the value and cost of these advancements in terms of how it influences our children’s ability to think. There is, however, a growing body of research that technology can be both beneficial and harmful to different ways in which children think. Moreover, this influence isn’t just affecting children on the surface of their thinking. Rather, because their brains are still developing and malleable, frequent exposure by so-called digital natives to technology is actually wiring the brain in ways very different than in previous generations.

26 11, 2012

Practical Ways to Teach Values to Your Children

By | November 26th, 2012|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , , , |0 Comments

Values are a pretty darned touchy subject to bring up these days when it comes to raising children. Values have gotten a bad rap because of how they are discussed in politics and as they relate to religious beliefs. When most people hear the term values used, they often think of the hot-button value issues [...]

19 11, 2012

Healthy Values Protect Your Kids from Media’s Unhealthy Messages

By | November 19th, 2012|Categories: Parenting|Tags: , , , , , , |2 Comments

So what values will children growing up in the 21st century need to thrive? Perhaps surprisingly, my answer is the same values that have enabled children to thrive in previous generations: respect, responsibility, hard work, integrity, compassion, just to name a few. The increased presence of popular media in no way changes that calculus. To [...]