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 […]
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.
What is Healthy Tech use during COVID 19
By Callie Albaugh, MA, LAMFT & Mathew Meyers, MA, LMFT In a time of quarantining in our homes with limited access to the world outside, it can be a slippery slope into unhealthy habits and routines. For many, this is a time that we easily sink into extended technology use – either as a means […]
Your brain is unable to read this whole title without losing focus…
Mathew Meyers, MA, LMFT Did I get your attention? There has been some suggestion that the ability to focus has been decreasing in recent years. Although there is some controversy about the research on this issue, some suggest that humans have only an 8 second span of attention (shorter than that of a goldfish) without […]