Tag: technology
Speak Your Teen’s Language – Text Them
“So….what’s your plan tonite?” I said to my big son a few days into Spring Break. He had spent most of the break at a friend’s place, coming home for a change of clothes and a quick check-in before heading back out into the throes of his Grade 12 spring break. “I’m stayin’ here again [...]
Kids & Tech – The Pack of Wild Dogs Syndrome
There’s a school drop-off conversation that keeps popping up over and over lately with the same results. Our young kids are spending more and more time playing video games and we as parents are starting to notice that these electronic universes are having a serious attitude altering effect on them. When they are stomping through [...]
Time to Curate The Internet with Pinterest
Believe it or not, I am generally slow to come to new technology trends. Used to be that I was the first one to try just about anything. But, as life got busier and busier I felt like adding one more way to spend uncounted hours on the Internet was not the best choice for [...]
I-Pad Apps to Get Kids Ready for School
The countdown calendar at our house shows we’ve got about three weeks until the kids are back in school and it’s time to start thinking about plugging their brains back in to learning mode without freaking them out and sending them over the edge. Our IPad has been on sabbatical for most of the summer. [...]
Technology Bringing Kids Closer to Classic Art
I have never considered myself to be anything more than a stick person artist. Try as I might throughout the years to draw something remotely ‘good’, my hand could never translate what I saw in my mind on to paper. My renditions of Spiderman or Sgt. Rock looked like baby drawings, even in my teens. [...]
The Techno Family – Top Apps for Sustainable Eating
Buying food is a daily chore for most of us. Walking down the aisles or perusing the local markets can seem a bit intimidating with all the options and varieties available but sourcing those foods that are safe, healthy and leave little environmental impact on our ecosystem can be downright intimidating. With the growing movement [...]
The Techno Family – Technology's Christmas Past
It was Christmas time 1977. I remember my mother’s family coming in from Ottawa, driving past mountains of snow piled up on the sides of the roads. That was the year my brother and I had to jump out of our second floor windows so we could shovel the snow away from the front door [...]
The Techno Family – Tune In, Turn On with Limits
Too much of anything is bad for you they say. Everything in moderation. You shouldn’t drink too much water, you shouldn’t eat too much food and you shouldn’t watch too much TV. The problem is determining just how much is too much-it’s just so indefinite. Mostly it’s a personal feeling that we know when we’ve [...]
The Techno Family – A Walk Through The Digital Graveyard
The digital graveyard. Every town, city and country has one and they’re growing. Electronics probably have the highest turnover rates of any consumer products and yet are some of the hardest items to recycle properly. That is until recently, as a host of options are opening up. If someone were to ask you how many [...]
The Techno Family – Giving In to the Call of the Cell Phone
I’ve known for years now that the time would come when I’d have to acquiesce to my oldest daughter’s constant requests to connect to the virtual world through her own devices and that time has just slapped me right in the face. What it really came down to though, was the cost of trust. Let’s [...]
Cell Phones and Kids, the Debate
I’d feel naked without my cell phone. It’s my only phone (I’ve chosen not to get a home phone line) and it remembers all my family and friends’ phone numbers so that I don’t need to. It serves as my alarm clock. For a lot of parents, it’s mandatory to help keep control over their [...]
