I did it—I unplugged. I decided to honor the National Day of Unplugging by disconnecting from technology for a few hours, not nearly the 24 hours originally called for, but enough to pose a challenge. Right away I noticed that not having my computer or phone turned on freed me from any guilt about sending [...]
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I came across an article from The Wall Street Journal titled The Facebook-Free Baby—Are you a mom or dad who’s guilty of ‘oversharenting’? The cure may be to not share at all. Author Steven Leckart discusses the circumstances leading to parents sharing everything about their kids online, as well as potential repercussions for doing so. [...]
This year, National Day of Unplugging started sundown on March 23rd until sundown on March 24th. Of course in typical blogging- and iPhone-addicted style, I ended up spending a ton of those 24 hours writing posts and swiping my phone on. I wish I could say I didn’t get the memo, but it’s more like [...]
A few weeks after purchasing an iPhone, someone at work asked me, “What’s the one biggest thing that you do differently on that smart phone that you couldn’t on your previous phone?” I replied, “I can’t seem to put it down!” I don’t really want LO too exposed to tech gadgets, and for the longest [...]
We don’t really LO watch too much TV. Probably the only times he ‘s ever seen the TV on is when there’s an important soccer game on that my husband has to watch. Usually I’ll take LO out of the room, and even if he’s in the same room, he thankfully doesn’t stare at it [...]
