Archives for September 2014

National Suicide Prevention Week

It is National Suicide Prevention Week. It is known that “every year, over 800,000 almost people die from suicide; this roughly corresponds to one death every 40 seconds. The number of lives lost each year through suicide exceeds the number of deaths due to homicide and war combined” (Source: http://www.iasp.info/wspd/pdf/2014/2014_wspd_brochure.pdf). I wanted to provide you […]

“Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent” – NY Times

Many parents ask me how much technology time they should allow their children. There is extensive research concerning brain development and exposure to technology that I encourage my parents to research. I grew up in an era where cell phones did not exist. I typed my papers on word processors and the term “google it” […]