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• News on The Parent App
  I spoke about my book The Parent App: Understanding Families in a Digital Age on: […]
• Communication Across Generations
    A few days ago I led a workshop on digital and mobile media use with a group of people who were grandparents and parents of older children.  One thing that generated a great deal of discussion involved texting. According … Continue reading → […]
• NYTimes article on parental monitoring cites me, friends
  ‘Big Brother’? No, It’s Parents By SOMINI SENGUPTA Published: June 25, 2012 253 Comments When her children were ready to have laptops of their own, Jill Ross bought software that would keep an eye on where they went online. One … Continue reading → […]

Digital Parenting

• Making an iPhone contract w/kids? Ask them what they want from you.
  I just published a blog entry response to the “iPhone contract” that made the rounds earlier this week (referring to the mom who wrote a contract with her 13-year-old son that outlined expected behaviors). I decided to take my own advice and have my kids take the lead in writing up a family technology agreement. […]
• Setting up a contract about tech use with your kids
  The holidays are a time when lots of parents give gifts of technology to their children. And so, when a mom in Cape Cod created and then blogged about an 18-point contract for her son as she gave him an iPhone for Christmas, I guess I wasn’t too surprised to see that her contract went […]
• How are mobile & digital media shaping parent/teen relationships?
  SNS and mobile phones can provide powerful ways for parents to stay connected to their teens. But what happens when things go wrong? By Lynn Schofield Clark, Ph.D. It’s become a familiar story: parents using Facebook as way to publicly discipline their children. Recently, we’ve seen the parents in Wisconsin who took away their daughter’s […]