Moms Guide to Technology

If you work with kids and are not on Facebook, it’s a mistake.

Teens live in a digital world.  Most adults who have not stepped into that world hold back because:   It’s too hard & I’m too busy OR Professional protection.  It’s not hard, it doesn’t have to be time consuming if you just set aside an hour each day.  And it won’t ruin your career if you do it right.

Learning to work out social norms is a natural part of coming of age.  Those natural social interactions are happening in a digital way now.  It doesn’t change the need for role models to provide guidance, support and encouragement.  I heard a speaker last week who made a compelling case that kids are losing access to caring, supportive and guiding adults.  Despite what you hear on TV, the online world is NOT only molesters and freaks. But it needs more caring adults & role models.

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I’m guessing you are a mom, too.  So, I don’t have to tell you that when you’re a mom, there’ s nothing more important than the kids.   Keeping up with their schedules and my work and my husband has more than eaten up 18+ hours a day.  So, I am never surprised when parents confess they can’t  find time to step across the threshold of life to the online, multimedia world.  Even if “too busy” is just a mask for fearful, I understand.  We are a new generation of parents.  Tecnology is emerging at a rate exponentially faster than my parents could have imagined.  My parents never learned to program the VCR.  They just waited until the kids moved out to watch whatever they wanted.  Our generation will not skate by avoiding the interface with technology.

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