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Educate Parents About Family Media Management. Run Your Family Like a Business. Family and Technology: Articles About How Kids And Parents Use Digital Devices. How Technology is Influencing Families. May 23, 2011- The digital age is affecting more than how America communicates. It is also shaping parent-child relationships in striking new ways. Barna Group recently completed a study about the influence of technology in families, releasing the findings in a new digital report, The Family & Technology Report. The research was conducted in partnership with Orange, which is part of the reThink Group. The innovative study included nationwide interviews among parents and 11- to 17-year-olds from the same households, allowing comparisons between the parents and the tweens and teenagers who reside in the same home. Highlights from the study included the following five findings: 1. . * Parents are more likely than their tween and teen offspring to report regular use of cell phones and desktop computers.

Like other national studies have shown, parents are spending nearly the same amount of time per day as their tween and teen-aged kids consuming media and using various digital technologies. 2. 3. How Families Use Technology to Ease the Work-Family Juggle. 10 Signs Your Kids Are Overscheduled. Even the kids need a breather sometimes. These warning signs may indicate your little one is too busy.

All Tuckered Out This article originally appeared on LearnVest.com. We’ve all heard about the signs to look out for if your kid is using drugs—the glassy eyes, spending less time with friends and family, apathy towards everything—but what if the culprit isn’t pills but programming—and too much of it? The epidemic of overly scheduled kids has caught the attention of educators, doctors, and child psychologists over the past few decades.

And not surprisingly, overscheduling kids leads to the same stress-related health and psychological problems that overscheduled adults experience. There’s a middle ground, though, between back-to-back dance classes, soccer games, band practice and church group, and the other extreme: undirected hours of unfulfilling TV-watching and phone-talking. How do you know if your kid is too busy?