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S3E5: Grandchildren and Their Devices
So many of our grandchildren have an overpowering connection to their handheld computing and gaming devices. They steal focus from the time we spend together, but it's the "new normal" in many households.
How can a grandparent accept the reality without encouraging the intrusion? Emily talks with three guests who bring their personal and professional expertise to the challenge.
SHOW NOTES
Guest Emily Cherkin can answer your questions through her service and website, The Screen Time Consultant.
Emily's second guest, Jennifer Fink, runs the parenting site Building Boys. She mentions the book "Moral Combat: Why The War On Violent Video Games is Wrong" by Christopher J. Ferguson. Jennifer's podcast, On Boys, recently had Emily as a guest to discuss the grandparenting of boys. Here's a video teaser on YouTube.
Rhonda Moskowitz provides coaching through her business and website, Practical Solutions Parent Coaching. She is active with (and mentioned) the Childrens' Screentime Action Network, a great resource for parents and educators.
And here's our personal history of personal computers. How does this compare to your own?
- 1983 Apple II Plus with 48 kilobytes of memory, a green screen monitor, and two floppy disk drives. And a joystick to play a helicopter game.
- 1987 IBM PC XT with 128 kilobytes of memory, a 10 megabyte hard drive, and an external 1200-baud telephone modem for CompuServe.
- 1990 generic PC clone we bought at Montgomery Ward with a 20 megabyte hard drive and color monitor, and a faster modem for America Online to tell us "You've got mail!"
- 1992 Compaq Elite mini notebook with a built in trackball for word processing without a mouse.
- 1995, the first of a succession of IBM PC clones Mike built out of separate components, upgrading parts that would fail or become obsolete, as if we were in some science fiction movie. (Continues to this day)
- 2003 Toshiba laptop for the oldest to take to college, which gave us our first hard drive crash.
- 2006 First MacBook (for #3 to take to college)
- 2013 my first real laptop, an Acer Ultrabook with Windows 7
- 2014 my first iPhone (iPhone 4)
- 2015 our first iPad (iPad 2)
- Today, we're on our 2nd Mac, 6th homebuilt PC, 4th laptop, 2nd iPad, and Emily is on her 3rd iPhone.
How about you? Send us an email.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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By Emily Morgan, Author and Grandparent
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So many of our grandchildren have an overpowering connection to their handheld computing and gaming devices. They steal focus from the time we spend together, but it's the "new normal" in many households.
How can a grandparent accept the reality without encouraging the intrusion? Emily talks with three guests who bring their personal and professional expertise to the challenge.
SHOW NOTES
Guest Emily Cherkin can answer your questions through her service and website, The Screen Time Consultant.
Emily's second guest, Jennifer Fink, runs the parenting site Building Boys. She mentions the book "Moral Combat: Why The War On Violent Video Games is Wrong" by Christopher J. Ferguson. Jennifer's podcast, On Boys, recently had Emily as a guest to discuss the grandparenting of boys. Here's a video teaser on YouTube.
Rhonda Moskowitz provides coaching through her business and website, Practical Solutions Parent Coaching. She is active with (and mentioned) the Childrens' Screentime Action Network, a great resource for parents and educators.
And here's our personal history of personal computers. How does this compare to your own?
- 1983 Apple II Plus with 48 kilobytes of memory, a green screen monitor, and two floppy disk drives. And a joystick to play a helicopter game.
- 1987 IBM PC XT with 128 kilobytes of memory, a 10 megabyte hard drive, and an external 1200-baud telephone modem for CompuServe.
- 1990 generic PC clone we bought at Montgomery Ward with a 20 megabyte hard drive and color monitor, and a faster modem for America Online to tell us "You've got mail!"
- 1992 Compaq Elite mini notebook with a built in trackball for word processing without a mouse.
- 1995, the first of a succession of IBM PC clones Mike built out of separate components, upgrading parts that would fail or become obsolete, as if we were in some science fiction movie. (Continues to this day)
- 2003 Toshiba laptop for the oldest to take to college, which gave us our first hard drive crash.
- 2006 First MacBook (for #3 to take to college)
- 2013 my first real laptop, an Acer Ultrabook with Windows 7
- 2014 my first iPhone (iPhone 4)
- 2015 our first iPad (iPad 2)
- Today, we're on our 2nd Mac, 6th homebuilt PC, 4th laptop, 2nd iPad, and Emily is on her 3rd iPhone.
How about you? Send us an email.
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.