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Once a mom was afraid, and wrote: My kids are almost 7 and 4.5 and they received an iPad. Now all day long they want to use it. I frea...

Be curious. Be open-minded! Beyond this, or behind that, are other things. Peek. A joyful attitude is your best tool. SandraDo...

Carol/Sognokids wrote, in the middle of something a little longer: One day Colton and Bud returned from the library, thrill...

Meredith wrote: Expecting human relationships—of any kind—to be fair and equitable is a set-up for cynicism and disappointment in th...

Teresa Y. wrote: People have a lot of resources these days, and they are mostly very accessible; of course it makes sense that some ...

Dede wrote: I finally let go of my control issue around TV and video. In its place I found trust which created a deepening of love a...

Someone (who was against video games) wrote: Being exposed to new stuff is what will generate new interests. I responded: If...

Don't discount the learning/problem solving that is going on while our kids play video games. I can't think of anything else t...

Years back, a group of families traded babysitting. Kirby had a favorite family to visit, where there were several kids who knew an...

In 2012, I responded to a mom's frustration about how to limit, or not, TV and computer use. There are many benefits to letti...

We didn't have problems with our unlimited turns, but it's because nobody ever played longer than he really wanted to just to ke...

a mom wrote: Having the television on all day is not something I want and I live here too. Sandra Dodd's response: We don't ...

This was written about the Dodd kids and their questions about U.S. Presidents, in 2003. Click the link at the bottom for what came...

Problem: My son spends a lot of his time playing video games. I have accepted that this is his passion... and maybe very well play a ...

Joyce Fetteroll wrote: The first step is finding something that's better than what you have. The second step is wanting to chang...

If someone knew almost nothing in the world but trivia relating to popular music for the past 100 years, that would make a HELL of a goo...

Karen James wrote in 2012: My nine-year-old son ran into the kitchen yesterday while I was fixing a snack for us to take back to our g...

Playing a video game is not violent. Playing a game is sitting on a couch with a remote control. Shaming a kid who wants to sit on t...

Movies touch and show just about everything in the world. There are movies about history and movies that are history. There are mov...

Pam Sorooshian wrote: It would be very useful if parents stop using the term "screen time." It is insulting and adversarial....