By Alexis Wood, MA, LAMFT In this day and age, parents and caregivers face a new challenge: teaching their children how to engage with technology and incorporate it into their lives in a balanced way. What a task! Whether we like it or not, technology is integrated into nearly every aspect of our lives, and […]
Uncharted Territory; Positive Strategies for Parenting in the Digital World
If you are not an educator, you like me, do not have much of a template for parenting/teaching children how to be responsible digital citizens. Note that these skills are higher level executive functioning skills. They require practice, intentionality, and development. By that I mean, as young people age and their prefrontal cortex continues to […]
Uncharted Territory; Positive Strategies for Parenting in the Digital World
If you are not an educator, you like me, do not have much of a template for parenting/teaching children how to be responsible digital citizens. Note that these skills are higher level executive functioning skills. They require practice, intentionality, and development. By that I mean, as young people age and their prefrontal cortex continues to […]
Strategies for Leading children into a Healthy Relationship with Technology – Video Presentation
Traverse Counseling & Consulting therapists discuss how to lead your children in creating a healthy relationship with technology, even during COVID! This webinar will help parents identify strategies for leading their children in creating healthy tech use family rules and guidelines.
Your Kids’ Brain on Technology
Mathew Meyers, MA, LMFT Recently I had the opportunity to learn from Margaret Wehrenberg, Psy.D. during an all-day intensive workshop on Anxiety in the digital age. Ms. Wehrenberg is a coach, therapist, and trainer. At Traverse Counseling & Consulting we have the opportunity to work with and serve children, teens and parents in the area […]