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10 Ways Adults Are Making Parents’ Tech Decisions More Difficult
As the evidence continues to grow that youth and mobile devices are a toxic combination, parents are increasingly being challenged in their decisions regarding tech usage for their offspring. Although […]
Health • Parenting • Technology
Why All the Worry? Reasons for Our Kids’ Anxiety
Evidence increasingly suggests that we and our youth are exhibiting increased levels of anxiety and depression. Consider for one that the suicide rate for teens and young adults (20-24) of […]
Nutrition • Parenting • Technology
A Plea from a Father and a Child Psychologist
Dear Parents of the Tri-state Area, For those of who have read anything I have previously written, you quickly come to realize just how much I feel that the vitality […]
Technology
More Sex. More Violence. Good by Me?
Recently the Journal of Pediatrics published a study entitled Parental Desensitization to Violence and Sex in Movies. The authors took 1,000 U.S. parents and showed them multiple pairs of clips […]
Technology
Linked In: Assessing Trends Regarding Youth’s Consumption of Technology
Linked In, Part I: A Day in the Life of Our Youth 6:14 A.M. The flickering lights of the television fill Aubrey’s room a few minutes before her buzzer goes […]
Health • Technology
How the Communication Revolution in Healthcare is Hampering More Than Just Communication
It happened again. Yesterday, I was charting on the recently launched streamlined version of our electronic health records and a new note popped up in the right lower corner of […]
Health • Technology
How Meaningful Use Is Creating Meaningless Strife
One of the biggest topics today in the health care field is that of meaningful use. Meaningful Use is defined as using certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to improve […]
Mental Health • Parenting • Technology
What’s All the Fuss About? A Perspective on the Growing Trend of Pediatric Anxiety
What’s All the Fuss About? A Perspective on the Growing Trend of Pediatric Anxiety Introduction Anxiety Disorders are now the most prevalent psychological condition in children and adults in the […]
Technology
What Autism Teaches Us about Relationships – What Technology Does Not
Part I: Opening Act I am sitting directly across from him. I mention something about the rain outside. He briefly looks up and responds affirmatively, but just as quickly he […]
Technology
Thinking Through the Immersion Dilemma: What if My Teen’s Life is Governed by Media & Technology?
Over the past couple of years, I have spoken and written much about issues related to our youth’s use of media and technology. In addition to this series, further reading […]