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Simple Holiday Shopping Apps
With Thanksgiving later this year, I am hearing more and more people stressing about holiday shopping. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming up, I decided to feature three mobile apps that will help make shopping simple and stress-free for you. I found 3 simple holiday shopping apps that will save you time, money,…
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Manage Kids’ Technology and Media Time With Wellness Incentives
It is getting colder outside, which means my kids are grabbing for their electronics more. While I love technology, I hate it when my kids become techno-zombies. You know that glazed-over, zoned out look they get when they are glued to the TV? They get all bug-eyed and develop selective hearing, it drives me crazy.…
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Halloween Safety Tips: GPS Tools for Tracking Your Children
We’re talking Halloween safety tips along with other free online games for kids on “Media Mom” on Local Five Live, a CBS affiliate. I was on the fence about featuring these tracking apps today. At what point are we being too paranoid as parents? When I was a kid, I remember trick-or-treating until all hours…
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Great Apps for Halloween Fun
I am not a big fan of Halloween but I will admit…I am having a ton of fun with some of the sites and apps I found. If you watch this segment, you will see me cover them all. It was a pretty entertaining one! If you just want to read about my top picks…
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Thanks Ellen DeGeneres, Best 99 cents I have Spent
There is a question I dread hearing from my kids…”Mom, can I get another game on my iPod?” For some reason, it is like nails on a chalkboard. I mean come on, my kids both have a million and one games on those things already, why do they need more!? Well, last week I caved…
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Creating, Connecting, and Educating All in One App
Okay so I totally suck at math. If it has to do with numbers, chances are it will go over my head. My brain hates numbers. It loves pictures, colors, video, and all things bright and shiny and interactive! I absolutely dread helping my son with math homework. Nothing makes me feel more inept. I…
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Creating Connection with Technology – Family Matters App
The other day I asked my son what he learned in school and without looking up from his ipod he replied, “Nothing”. I thought, “Okay, you are 8 years old. The “nothing” answers are not supposed to come until you are a teenager! My husband and I have also made the mistake of allowing our…
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My Attempt at Suicide Prevention
As you read this, chances are there is a person sitting next to you that wants to die. They may not have plans to take their own life but they probably wish someone else would. You may have had those thoughts yourself. I did. I used to wish for a semi-trailer to crash into my…
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It’s Time to Start Talking About Mental Health – Screw the Stigma
It’s time to break the mental health stigma and start talking about your elephant. Last night, as I was cuddling with my daughter Teya in her bed, my mind was racing with all things I had to do. Life as I knew it drastically changed after the launch of the website. My daughter was excitedly…