Mar
21
2015

The Birthday Party Shaming Trend Needs to STOP

It's great that communities rally, but at what cost?

You've heard by now of Peterborough, Ontario boy Odin Camus. When his mother found no one RSVP'd to his 13th birthday party, she took to Facebook.

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May
08
2014

Don't Let Your Guard Down: Kids And The Internet

Why My Kids Will be Kicking it Old School This Summer

I like to think that I’m a very tech savvy mother. I know where to look in social accounts for security flaws, I research apps before I allow my children to have them, and regularly check all their social accounts and followers. I know all their passwords and have access to their phone 24/7. They also must hand their phones over to me at 8:30 Sunday night and they cannot have them back until Friday morning. Until today I felt confident in my abilities to manage my children’s access to media.

I failed.

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