Category: Home Life

Summer Together: Multitasking

{photo by fancycrave1} Hyperconnected, we imagine ourselves more efficient, but we are deceived. Multitasking degrades our performance at everything we do, all the while giving us the feeling that we

Summer Together: Craft Party

{photo by Aaron Burden} Want to get your child’s friends together this summer and give them something fun to do and take home? Host a craft party! This Pinterest page

Summer Together: Friday’s Family Time Ideas

{photo by Freestocks.org} My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising

Summer Together: Phone-Free Meal

{photo by Dan Gold} What phones do to in-person conversation is a problem. Studies show that the mere presence of a phone on the table (even a phone turned off)

Summer Together: Friday Fun for the Family

{photo by Viktor Hanacek} Listen earnestly to anything your children want to tell you, no matter what. If you don’t listen eagerly to the little stuff when they are little,

Summer Together: Speaking and Listening

{photo by William Iven} It is not enough to ask your children to put away their phones. You have to model this behavior and put way your phone. ~Sherry Turkle,

Summer Together: Don’t Forget to Slow Down

{Public Domain photo via pixabay.com} Life is pretty full during the school year, and sometimes summer seems just as busy! Yet we all know we should take time over the

Summer Together: Five More for Friday

We didn’t realize we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun. ~Unknown Each Friday this summer we are sharing 5 ideas for having fun with your family.

Summer Together: Reclaim Conversation

Face-to-face conversation is the most human – and humanizing – thing we do. Fully present to one another, we learn to listen. It’s where we develop the capacity for empathy.

Summer Together: More Family Fun

{photo source: SLO Visitor's Guide} Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.