WEEK NINE!

Holy crow - can you even believe it? How are you doing? Flourishing or just surviving? Or maybe somewhere in between? Let’s be honest--it’s probably been a whole lot of mess with good times and bad times, moments of peace and moments of chaos, sprinkles of sweetness and tornadoes of anger...hopefully you have found a groove with the kids and are managing your family’s day and keeping it together.

I totally get that for some of us this time home with our kids 24/7 has been very difficult while for some of us it has been pretty normal...that's the craziness of it---our families, our own temperaments, our kids’ moods, and our work situations are all sooooooo different. Yet, somehow we all have to survive, we all want to continue to raise our kids to be good humans, we all want to see our relationships stay positive, and we all want peace and quiet in our homes.

And if your partner is working outside the home, you may face the same challenges as me...a partner who comes home sees the kids (and me) on our phones and immediately assumes that we have been on them all day...and gets frustrated by it. And continues to grow increasingly frustrated as the evening progresses and he sees us stay on our phones.

On today’s podcast, I am going to take a bit of a different angle to my usual tech/phone stance… and discuss why I think that they can be incredible tools to support our kids and teens! I am going to give you 5 reasons why our kids’ phones are actually really powerful and amazing tools for them to use to help them not only survive this pandemic...but THRIVE!