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Is Technology Changing the Way Children Develop Relationships?

February 11th, 2013

By Dr. Jim Taylor Popular culture and technology are redefining the meaning of relationships: what relationships are, how they develop and are maintained, and how many relationships we can have. Popular culture, for example, suggests that love can be found in a few weeks on shows like The Bachelor, real family’s lives mirror shows such [...]

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Tags: children, development, parenting, relationships, social media, technology
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Is Technology Making Your Children Mindless Instead of Mindful?

January 22nd, 2013

By Dr. Jim Taylor I’m no Zen master and I don’t expect you to teach your children to meditate all day. At the same time, the notion of mindfulness has much broader meaning than as an Eastern philosophy or for practitioners of Buddhism. In fact, it has tremendous significance for your children growing up in [...]

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Tags: children, information, mindfulness, parenting, social media, technology
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Is Raising Good Decision Makers Parents’ Greatest Challenge?

January 15th, 2013

By Dr. Jim Taylor Good decision making is one of the most powerful skills your children need to learn as they progress through childhood and transition into adulthood. But I promise you, it is not a skill that will develop readily on its own, particularly in the digital world in which they are growing up. [...]

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Tags: children, consequences, decision making, internet, parenting, technology
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Is Technology Creating a Generation of Bad Decision Makers?

January 7th, 2013

By Dr. Jim Taylor Decision making is another aspect of children’s thinking that seems to be suffering as a result of the latest technology. This poor decision making is illustrated by events over the last few years involving young people making egregiously bad decisions that involve technology (not to mention the frequent examples occurring in [...]

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Tags: children, consequences, decision making, internet, parenting, technology
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Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be…Multitaskers

December 19th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor Like many digital natives, your children are probably on their way to becoming lifelong multitaskers (or so you think). As the research indicates, children these days spend about seven-and-a-half hours a day interacting with technology unrelated to school and when multitasking is counted, that number jumps to an astonishing ten-and-three-quarter hours. [...]

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Tags: children, distraction, homework, multitasking, parenting, social networking
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Are Your Children Overloaded with Information?

December 10th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor The Internet, and all of the new computer and communication technology that has sprung from it, have been a boon to the information age, making information available at children’s fingertips instantaneously. The sheer volume of information now accessible online is staggering; there are around 50 billion pages on the Web. Information [...]

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Tags: children, information, internet, overload, parenting, social media, technology
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Many More Government Jobs Are Needed and Shall Be Provided

December 8th, 2012

By Dan Miller As we eliminate the private sector and welfare state, we will need more government employees. Introduction. I have reluctantly decided, as every compliant citizen must and as every other voter already has, that Speaker Boehner is right and that all who refuse to play on his team and instead reject President Obama’s grand [...]

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Tags: private sector, public sector, satire, schools, teachers, unions, welfare
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Can We Dumb Things Down Enough?

December 4th, 2012

By Dan Miller Arguments that appeal to reason rarely appeal to emotion. Nor do they appeal to uninformed voters who are not interested. Can we have better informed and more rational voters? Democrats realize that rational thought does not appeal to many voters and Republicans have yet to understand that emotional appeals beat rational appeals. [...]

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Tags: education, election, irrational, Obama, satire, spending, taxes, voters
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How Technology is Changing the Way Children Think and Focus

December 3rd, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor Thinking. The capacity to reflect, reason, and draw conclusions based on our experiences, knowledge, and insights. It’s what makes us human and has enabled us to communicate, create, build, advance, and become civilized. Thinking encompasses so many aspects of who our children are and what they do, from observing, learning, remembering, [...]

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Tags: children, internet, learning, overload, parenting, technology, thinking
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Ego in Business: There Is an “M” and an “E” in Team

November 26th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor The San Francisco Giants’ surprising World Series victory in October led to mass celebration and ticker-tape parades in the City by the Bay. It also produced the usual theorizing about how a team could go from being down 0-3 in the National League Championship Series to sweeping the favored Detroit Tigers [...]

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Tags: accomplishment, business, competition, ego, organizations, success, team
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