What Porn Does to Teen Brains—and How to Keep It Off Their Devices
Here's a topic that comes up regularly in my work: talking with kids about porn exposure-- a subject that makes lots of parents queasy....
Control the Scroll: Managing Social Media and Mental Health
Thanksgiving break is a great time to hit the reset button on social media and family screen use. It was such a pleasure participating in...
The Upside to Screen Time
I hear so much guilt and worry from parents about their kids' pandemic screen time. While boundaries and lots and lots of conversations...
Remote School as the Gateway Drug to Social Media
While I don't love the slightly alarming title here, this is a topic of concern among many of the parents that I work with. So many...
LIKE the movie
Please join me at Paul Revere for a screening of the documentary film LIKE, followed by a panel discussion. This is a thought-provoking...
“HEY, WYD?”: Inside Teen Sexting
This is a truly fantastic piece on sexting, from Girls Leadership. Parents often have a difficult time discussing this topic with their...
The Minefield of Talking With Your Children About Sexting
Dread talking with teens about sexting? I get it, but this is a conversation worth having! There are serious potential emotional and...
Talk to Your Kids About Porn
Parents, this is a fantastic piece about a subject I repeatedly deal with in my ADOLESSONS work-- kids seeing porn before they have real...
Half of Teens Think They Spend Too Much Time on Their Phones
A new Pew Research Center survey of teens and parents found that 72% of teens sometimes or often check their phones first thing in the...
What Parents Should Do Instead of Worrying that Smartphones Will 'Destroy' Their Kids
Love this balanced piece about kids and tech. "Approaching all of our kids’ media experiences with an attitude of fear and guilt that we...