Tag Archives: screen time

Birds and bees tangled in the web

Are you worried about online porn? Well, don’t worry… Do something! On TV women are smoother skinned, slimmer, and sexier than ever before.  In magazines they reveal ever more, and what they reveal is ever more perfect.  Online, well, online almost anything goes. Some say that any child on the web is only two clicks [...]

Posted on 18 April 2013
Musings: Parenting teenagers
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Teen Screen Time

This week is Screen Free Week for some around the world.  So much has been written about the benefits of being computer literate and even more has been written about the harmful effects for our children of too much gaming, texting, social media, streaming and surfing. I find myself rather more in favour of the [...]

Posted on 2 May 2012
Musings: Parenting teenagers
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Off and Out!

I want my kids off screens and out doors! Not only would I prefer mother nature to ‘World of Warcraft’ to be entertaining my children but I want freedom for them. Freedom to roam away from home, freedom to explore the world and play games of their own making; freedom to take risks and freedom [...]

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Posted on 23 April 2012
Musings: Parenting girls, Parenting teenagers
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