With the school doors opening within the next month, many of you are probably wondering about all those school rules you and your child will have to follow. One rule that hasn’t always been around but is becoming more and more popular deals with cell phones. Does your child’s school have cell phone bans? If they do, do you know what they are or agree with them?
In my son’s school you are allowed to bring cell phones as long as they are kept in your locker during school and do not go off during school hours. We are still unsure …read more

In these days of cell phones that will take photos and videos, are your parenting moves in public being recorded.  If someone objects to something you say to your child, or a method of discipline, will they record it, put it on You Tube, or even send it to the police.
This happened to a Mom in Alabama, who is in jail for dragging her child on a leash.  Granted what and how she was doing it is very questionable, if the video hasn’t been “doctored.”  But if she only had her child on a leash would she have been reported …read more

I’ve read a lot about  Sexting lately. Sexting, in case you ity, didn’t already know, is sending sexual messages and/or photos through the cell phone. It’s a growing trend among teens and it’s easy to see how easily it could all go wrong.
First, there’s the nudity aspect, which is sure to freak out parents, but teens getting naked, it’s nothing new. I was reading something at Switched today that mentioned a  piece in the National Post quoting Professor Peter Cumming from York University, in Toronto who feels that Sexting is along the same lines as Spin the Bottle.
When I …read more

Here’s an interesting issue: If you live in a cell phone-only home, you could be contributing to a new problem that worries the people at the Centers for Disease Control. No, this isn’t a cell phone bashing post, telling you that it will do great damage to your health. Instead, the problem is, the CDC depends on doing large surveys involving health issues and health care across your state.
The researchers need this type of information to track illnesses and problems, figure out where certain resources need to be focused, and to see if programs are working. If they can’t get …read more

What’s in your bra?

Image Source: So Sioux Me

I was roaming all over the house looking for my phone. Cause, you know, I had pictures on it that I was going to use for about 5 articles.

I was muttering “where is my phone?”

Pone. Zack, the two year old very near death (because I’m about to want to kick his ass), says and hands me my dripping wet phone.

I figure, I’ll be calm what’s done is done, he’s just a baby.

Maybe it will dry out, I think. I take the battery out and leave my broken phone on the counter.

Two seconds later I walk outside and there he …read more