Encourage Kindness on Social Media

Kindness in the Real World In the real world, kindness is about giving, inspiration, being kind, peaceful, positive, optimistic, showing empathy and compassion. In 2018, 30 of the most heartwarming Random Acts of Kindness were highlighted in a BestLife article by Alexander Breindel. In the article, Breindel writes, “If you can’t help but emit an […]

Social Media Challenges: Popular and Dangerous

Over the past few years, social media challenges like the Tide Pod, Cinnamon, Ice and Bird Box Challenge have surfaced. While wildly popular with teens, these risky, often life threatening, challenges have been a frustration to parents. Newsweek published an article about the appeal of challenges to teens stating, “Attempting to grasp the motives behind […]

What Are The Consequences of Social Media?

Most kids will tell you that they live on their social media because this is the way they all connect with each other. They are defiantly loyal to the social media platforms they are using which are generally related to the cohort of friends that they hang with. Of course they often change apps when […]

Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and Your Daughter

PRETEEN GIRLS – LEARNING TO NAVIGATE SOCIAL MEDIA SITES Your preteen daughter and her girl friends come home from school and without so much as a “hi mom,” head up to her room and shut the door. You wonder for a moment if you should check in on them, maybe offer them a snack, try […]

Covington: What Can We Learn?

 What’s True? What’s Fake? When it comes to the social media, that’s a commonly asked question. Earlier this month, we witnessed, up close and personal, Covington and  how something taken out of context on social media could become a major controversy causing confusion, conflict, embarrassment, and harassment.   Covington: How It Started “This all began with […]

Reflections of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Empathy, Sensitivity and Compassion Lagging in the Digital Age

 An Important Voice for America It’s a documented and well known fact that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was the most important voice of the American civil rights movement, which worked for equal rights for all. In the mid 1960s, he was largely responsible for the passing of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting […]

Social Media and Isolation Connection

Smartphone Saturation and Social Media If you’ve walked across any high school campus in America, you’ve seen students congregating in large groups, small groups, with one other person or alone. They are usually browsing social media. The majority of these students, in groups or alone, have one thing in common – a smartphone – in […]

Social Media Diet

Social Media Diet    It’s the New Year and perhaps you, like many others, find yourself making bold resolutions to diet in 2019? Check the web and you’ll find a menu of trusted diets to the latest “get those pound off and keep them off” trends. Internet ads abound for how to keep you and […]

ADHD and Sleep in Teens

Teenagers already have such a tumultuous relationship with sleep due to the rapid changes that occur physically, mentally and behaviorally during this stage of development. When you consider those that are also dealing with the normal environmental stressors like school pressures and social media, while suffering with ADHD it is no wonder why one of […]

Smartphones, Social Media and Teens: Benefits, Risks and Radiation?

Teens, across the nation and around the world, will be heading back to school soon. While teens were “relaxing” over the summer, researchers were doing their due diligence by continuing to explore the impact smartphones and social media have on teens.  Let’s take a look at what we know and explore some new information that might be helpful […]