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What Do Young People Say About Their Relationship with Technology?

May 8th, 2013

By Dr. Jim Taylor To give you a sense of the scope of the effect of technology on the psychological and emotional health of young people, I want to describe the results of an international study involving more than 1000 students from ten countries across five continents that asked students to disconnect from technology for 24 [...]

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Tags: boredom, disconnect, emotions, relationships, stimulation, technology
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Teach Your Wired Children about Healthy Relationships

March 27th, 2013

By Dr. Jim Taylor Technology, such as the Internet, smartphones, and social media, can have great benefits in helping your children form and maintain relationships. At the same time, if not used with limits and guidance by your children, such use may prevent them from developing the essential relationship qualities and skills that have allowed [...]

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Tags: children, messages, parenting, relationships, social media, technology
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Are Online Relationships Healthy for Young People?

February 27th, 2013

By Dr. Jim Taylor More and more these days, young people are establishing and maintaining relationships online. These “cyber” relationships often arise because parents, out of fear for their children’s safety, no longer allow them to be “free range” to congregate in local parks, at malls, and on street corners. The only place that they [...]

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Tags: children, face-to-face, online, parenting, relationships, social media, virtual
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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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The Joys of “Bromance”

September 12th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor I have a confession: I’m having a “bromance.” You may know the term from the movie I Love You, Man; it describes a close, though non-sexual relationship between two men. Yes, my wife knows about and she supports it. My bromance was certainly unexpected. In fact, he (I’ll call him Drew) [...]

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Tags: bromance, emotions, friendship, men, personal growth, relationships
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Should You Take a Leap of Faith?

June 5th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor I’ve been on a bit of a self-help kick in my writing lately. And given the strong response from my last post about regret, I figured I would continue my personal-growth jones and write about another topic that might be of interest to readers. Living the life you want often means [...]

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Tags: career, change, consequences, personal growth, relationships, self-help
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Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda

May 29th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor What is the worst emotion you can imagine feeling? In my work, I see people express many different emotions. Yes, some are wonderful such as joy, excitement, pride, and inspiration. But others I see, not surprisingly, are less positive including fear, frustration, anger, and sadness. Yet, the one emotion that lies [...]

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Tags: courage, family, friends, personal growth, regrets, relationships, work
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Caught in the ‘Net

April 26th, 2011

By Dr. Jim Taylor If you’ve followed my tech-related blog posts over the last few years (if you haven’t, you can catch up here), you know that I have real concerns and what I consider to be some healthy skepticism about the impact of new technology and social media on people, particularly their biggest consumers, children [...]

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Tags: addiction, disconnected, internet, relationships, social media, technology
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Dogs, Horses, Humans, and Other Animals

June 12th, 2010

By Dan Miller We currently have four dogs, six horses and one cat. Many of us have had animals as pets, yet I wonder whether and to what extent we know them. All are very different, among species, within their respective species and even within breeds. However, they neither lie nor conceal their emotions; perhaps [...]

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Tags: cats, characteristics, dogs, horses, people, relationships
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