What is Your Child Watching Online?

It was an honor to present recently on- What is Your Child Watching Online in collaboration with Mountain Youth Community. To view the entire presentation- CLICK HERE! I discuss how technology can lead to gaming addiction, depression, and anxiety. Dr. Lisa Strohman

Technology Gift Giving Guide

technology gift giving

It’s that time of the year again and although it is the season of family, joy, and giving, if you have a child of a certain age it can be a time of technology anxiety. Maybe your child already has a personal device, be it a cell phone, IPad, or lap top, but everyone knows […]

Dangerous Apps: What You Might Not Know

dangerous apps and what to know

It can be difficult to know if your child is using dangerous apps and what the consequences might be. “In 2013, a twelve-year-old girl was lured away from her home by a 21 year-old-man. Once they met, he took her to a motel and took advantage of her. How did this little girl meet this terrible […]

Social Media Challenges: Popular and Dangerous

social media challenges that teens participate in

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 […]

How To Have A Healthy Relationship With Technology–Dr. Lisa’s Tips

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Dr. Lisa Strohman on the five ways we can create a healthier relationship with technology. Click the link below to gain access for all of Dr. Lisa’s life changing tips. https://medium.com/authority-magazine/dr-lisa-strohman-on-the-five-ways-we-can-create-a-healthier-relationship-with-technology-331e6073c62  

Technology, Teens, and Media Finding a Healthy Balance

technology teens and media-finding the balance

Technology: Fun or Detrimental? It’s fair to say technology for teens is fun and allows them to stay connected to family and friends. But, can too much technology be detrimental to teenager’s health causing them to give up physical exercise, learning, creativity and types of play.   Media, Screen Time, and Teens With the recent […]

Technology: Helping or Hurting?

does technology help or hurt us

Technology Overload Do your tweens or teenagers reach for their technology the minute they wake up in the morning, have technology with them all throughout the day, and go to bed with it at night? If they do, they are not alone. No matter what country you live in, what city, neighborhood, evidence of people […]

What is your Digital Footprint?!

know and control your digital footprint!

   How It Began -Digital Footprint “Did you know the computer was born not for entertainment or email but out of a need to solve a serious number-crunching crisis? By 1980, the US population had grown so large that it took more than seven years to tabulate the U.S. Census results. The government sought a faster […]

Gifts of Hope-On and Offline

Gifts of Hope-On and Offline

It’s the holiday season! People of all ages give each other gifts and reach out to show appreciation, gratitude, and compassion for others. Let’s face it, giving makes us happy!  A recent article in Time explains how researches find that the being generous can make people happier. Giving gifts of hope on and offline can definitely make us happy too! In addition […]