Please Share Your Family’s Social Media Story
Do you have a story about how your child, grandchild or relative has been adversely impacted by social media or media in general? The depiction of girls and young women as [...]
Social Media
Survey: Impact of Sexualized Media On Teen Girls
Last year I completed my book titled, SOCIAL MEDIA: YOUR CHILD’S DIGITAL TATTOO. This year I am writing a new book that focuses attention on how media and social media [...]
A Wired Family Update: Part 2 Social Media & Teen Depression
Welcome to part two in A Wired Family’s series on Social Media and Teens Depression. Last year we surveyed 10,000 students on their use of social media. To our surprise, [...]
40,000 Tinder Users Shutter To Think
How many times have you uploaded photos to Facebook and thought, “how does this app know that pic is of weird Uncle Charlie?” Perhaps you wondered briefly and then went [...]
A Wired Family App Update: MY3
According to a July 2016 publication by the American Academy of Pediatrics, Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for children between the ages of 15-19 years old. [...]
A Wired Family App Update: CRISIS TEXT LINE
As I mentioned in our program on the MY3 app, an American Academy of Pediatrics report from July 2016, stated that Insert Graphic 2 suicide is the sec ond-leading cause [...]
A Wired Family App Update: Tumblr
I’ve been using Tumblr to distribute my articles for about two years. However, I’ve spent very little time reading other people’s content… until recently… and [...]
A Wired Family App Update: Hot Or Not
Growing up can be difficult. Teens are almost by design concerned with how they look, sound and whether they fit in. Many of today’s apps don’t help – as many teens are [...]
Angry, Unfiltered Words: The Digital Tattoo
Unless you’ve been living in a cave or a Tibetan Monastery, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the young boy that had walked away from his mother – and in the moments [...]
Managing Your Home’s Router & Network: Beam Me Up Grandma!
Recently I was speaking to a group of parents that were frustrated with the hoops they must jump through to manage their family’s wireless networks. So many households [...]