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Selfies Jump the Shark

What’s more dangerous: sharks or taking pictures of yourself? Now, you might think that those seemingly ferocious feeding machines Discovery Channel spends a week chronicling

Let’s Grow a Few Heroes

Remember when we used to have heroes? You know, those people you could look up to, admire, maybe even want to be a little like?

Miley, What’s Good?

Sunday’s MTV’s 2015 Video Music Awards were, naturally, again all about Miley Cyrus. She hosted it and managed to dominate it as only a savvy,

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The E-Laugh’s on You

I got a text from my twentysomething daughter the other day that responded to a message I had sent with a “hahaha.” And being at

Please Fix My Tone, Watson

Listen up, boneheads, and you might actually learn something. Now, if I were a particularly tone-deaf individual, I might actually think that the above sentence

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Why, Back When I Was Young …

We are awash in many, many screens. Tiny ones and pretty big ones, twirling-swirling-thingamajig ones. … All right, I’m no Dr. Suess, but you get

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The Screen-Time Battle Begins With You

How do we set and keep reasonable and appropriate screen-time limits for our children? With the proliferation of screens everywhere—largely due to the explosion of

Plugged In Parent’s Guide to Today’s Technology

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