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Developing Children’s Healthy Self-identity

October 31st, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor Self-identity is one of the trickier contributors to children’s healthy development because you can’t “do” things to your children to give them their self-identity. Rather, you can only create an environment that allows their self-identity to evolve naturally. A part of the environment that supports the emergence of culture and media, […]

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Tags: children, culture, parenting, self-identity, social media, technology, values
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Media’s Externalization of Your Children’s Self-identity

October 11th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor “To all of Chris’ friends: This is his father. My son carelessly left his account logged in so I decided to snoop around. Upon reading my son’s personal information, I would like to clear a few things up. My son is not a ‘gangsta,’ he will not ‘beat a ho’s ass’ […]

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Tags: children, culture, facade, Facebook, parenting, self-identity, social media
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Kids 3.0: How to Raise Healthy Kids in a Tech World

August 16th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor I chose the metaphor of computer software with its evolving versions because it seemed to be relevant to children’s development in so many ways. Because my ideas about the role of technology in our lives is not only about the meeting of children and technology, but also what seems like their […]

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Tags: kids 3.0, parenting, self-identity, social media, technology, values, web 3.0
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