It's normal and even helpful to follow other lives online. But gone too far, intimacy at a distance can irreparably damage your relationship with your friends, your partner, and your kids.
Time Management Tips for Your Facebook Feed, Twitter Posts, and Instagram Uploads
Know Why You’re Using It
Are you constantly checking your phone because you are trying to build business connections? Gather information? Or is it because you don’t feel like cleaning the kitchen or finishing that report? Answer this before you look at your phone again.
Time Yourself
There’s nothing like an old-fashioned countdown clock to force you to use your time more efficiently. Use the alarm on your phone or an app like e.ggtimer.com to set a timer for the number of minutes you’ve allotted to social media.
Schedule Your Posts
To practice mindful use of social media, schedule a time or times of day when you’ll check your various feeds, and establish exactly how long you’ll spend doing it.
Park It
For 30 minutes a day, vow to go device-free. Period.
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The term “neurodiversity,” frames brain differences not as something to be cured, but as something to be embraced as part of human diversity. People who are autistic, have ADHD and similar brain differences have strengths unique to their atypical ways of perceiving, interacting with and learning about the world. In this episode of Live.Work.Thrive, Scary Mommy and Fatherly team up to bring a panel of experts to discuss how the different ways children think and perceive the world should be framed as a gift and a strength.
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Simon Rich’s ‘New Teeth’
The former SNL writer just dropped a collection of short stories about parenting and trying to raise babies. They are absurdist, surreal, and very, very funny. We love it. Read our interview with Simon Rich here.
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‘Octonauts: Above and Beyond’ with Your Kids
If you want your preschooler or toddler to watch new kids show that doesn’t bum them out all the time, the emotionally stable, and heroic Octonauts are back in the new show Above and Beyond. Come for the hilarious adventure, stay for the excellent Earth science. Read the full story here.
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To ‘Bluey’s New Record
Attention wax head parents! That hit cartoon on Disney — Bluey — is now the kids’ album of the year. Get the details here.
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