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Living life with our heads in the Cloud 2012-04-02 Author: Richard Singleton William Albrecht (1879-1945) is a name that doesn’t grab the headlines like a Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mark Zuckerberg. Albrecht didn’t create software empires, must-have gadgets or...
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Tuning-out for better relationships 2012-02-01 Author: Richard Singleton Online. It’s where we do our shopping, watch our sitcoms and movies, find, acquire and store our music, upload our family pictures and videos and, increasingly, we are using online as the...
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Your Christmas list e-list 2012-01-03 Author: Richard Singleton Just recently a sweet little neighbor boy showed up on our doorstep wanting to play “cops and robbers” with my son. His glowing 4 four-year-old eyes said it all – he was packing heat and...
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Controlling parental controls 2011-10-07 Author: Richard Singleton It’s an age-old battle: the epic struggle between teen and parent. Every teen believes that parents have too much control and almost every parent believes that their teen is out of control. It’s...
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Back to cool 2011-07-31 Author: Richard Singleton Where has the summer gone? It’s cliché to ask, but we have to, right? It’s what busy parents do. Somehow, down deep in the subterranean soil of our psyche, it makes us feel like we’re somehow doing more than just...
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Unplugged: Summer fun the old fashioned way 2011-05-31 Author: Richard Singleton June arrives each year donning the fashion of fresh opportunities and hopeful transitions. School is ending; summer is beginning. Vacation plans are blooming while yards are...
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Turbo teen 2011-04-01 Author: Richard Singleton It’s April and other than the promise of May flowers, you know what’s coming — April 15th, tax day, financial Armageddon! Now that your palms are a little sweaty, realizing that you haven’t finished your taxes or...
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Pulling the plug on cyber-bullying 2011-02-02 Author: Richard Singleton Don’t wait to act until you notice that your child is acting strangely when the phone rings or the computer dings. Like our turbocharged, tricked-out phones, TVs, cars, and computers,...
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Why you should wait to give your child a cell phone 2010-11-01 Author: Richard Singleton Those who’ve read more than one or two of my articles will know that I spend a lot of time musing about my childhood. For me, childhood is a warehouse of vivid memories –...
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Weaning your kids from their summertime electronics addictions 2010-08-31 Author: Richard Singleton If you’re like my family, we always dive into summer with great intentions. We plan to have days full of exhilaration, nights full of lingering laughter – a slow...
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Do try this at home! Help your kids be technology sleuths to beat the heat 2010-06-26 Author: Richard Singleton Summer is a time for kids’ imaginations and creativity to run wild Whether it’s a particularly “exciting” episode of MythBusters or some Evel Knievel...
