COVID-19, Media Safety, Mental Health, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Stress and Guilt: Parenting in Pandemic Times During this global crisis, we’ve seen many new themes show up in our work with parents, but none is more prevalent than the stress... Continue Reading
Media Safety, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Technology Left to Our Own Devices By Havi Wolfson Hall, LCSW, Child and Adolescent Therapist and Parent Educator at Parents Place, Palo Alto “Help! My Kid is addicted to... Continue Reading
Discipline & Behavior, Media Safety, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips The Essential Rules for Getting Your Child a Phone With the holidays upon us, many families of older children are faced with the question of allowing them to have a smart phone or not.... Continue Reading
Bullying Prevention, Discipline & Behavior, Education, Media Safety, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips, Preteens & Teens 13 Reasons Why—My child wants to watch it, how do I decide? The popular Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why, has caused controversy among some who think the show glorifies teen suicide. The series... Continue Reading
Media Safety, News, Preteens & Teens Can you please talk, not text? Parenting the Instagram generation The Christian Science Monitor by Michael B. Farrell and Jessica Mendoza Can kids be encouraged to let go of the virtual world —... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Media Safety, Preteens & Teens Powering Off: Taking a Digital Detox as a Family At their best modern devices are helpful tools and can make our lives easier. At their worst, they are remarkably addictive, and... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Media Safety, Parenting Tips, Technology 18 Ways to Unplug as a Family A sleeping bag for a phone? It might sound silly, but this idea is making the rounds as a fun solution to a common family problem:... Continue Reading
Leisure & Vacation, Media Safety, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Technology vs. the Art of Conversation Increasingly we rely on technology, email, voicemail, Facebook, Snapchat, and texting to communicate with others. It is not uncommon for... Continue Reading
Media Safety, Parenting Skills, Parenting Tips Is Using Your Phone Affecting Your Child and Family Life? Do you recall life before cell phones? The days when mothers and caregivers strolled with their young and talked to them on the way to... Continue Reading
Media Safety, Preteens & Teens When Should We Pull the Plug? Children & Media Joy, a mother of three, recently came to Parents Place because she thought her kids had a serious addiction … to their laptops, phones,... Continue Reading
