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Technology in school is a good thing, right? Yes and no. While Chromebooks and iPads and apps and browsers open windows to education, they also allow outside entities to learn about the kids in the classrooms. In 2018 venture capital investments in educational technology reached $1.45 billion, and that number is expected to increase exponentially by 2020.

Cassie Cresswell is co-director of Raise Your Hand, a grassroots parent group advocating for high-quality public education in Illinois. She tells uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Tracy Weiner and Anne Johnsos the lack of information about what’s being collected and by whom is alarming.

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Analysis out of the University of Maryland shows the divorce rate in America dropped by 18 percent between 2008 and 2016. That’s in part because Americans are waiting to get married, and people married at older ages are less likely to get divorced. But according to the American Psychological Association, about 40 to 50 percent of married couples in the United States still end up divorced. Jackie Pilossoph is the creator of the divorce blog DIVORCED GIRL SMILING. She also writes the column “Love Essentially” for the Chicago Tribune Pioneer Press. She joins uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Tracy Weiner and Anne Johnsos to talk about when, why and how to divorce while raising children.

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Did you see the Microsoft Super Bowl ad? It features kids with physical differences who love playing video games and who now can benefit from an adaptive controller. Jennifer Manley happens to be the mom of one of those kids, Grover. She joins uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Anne Johnsos and Tracy Weiner to talk about parenting a child who is “limb different” and how Grover has turned what might have been an obstacle into a gift.

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The American Medical Association is urging big social media and technology companies to help stop vaccine misinformation. In a letter to the CEOs of Facebook, Pinterest, Amazon, Google, YouTube and Twitter, the nation’s largest physician group called for a fight against anti-vaccine groups using social media to target parents. Dr. Sean O’Leary is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ committee on infectious diseases and is an infectious disease specialist out of Colorado. He tells uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Tracy Weiner and Anne Johnsos the science speaks for itself.

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Like Anne and Tracy on the uh-PARENT-ly Facebook page here. Follow them on Instagram and Twitter. Call them at 331-704-0046, or email them at [email protected]. And check out Anne’s book, POTTY-MOUTHED: Big Thoughts from Little Brains.

Social-emotional learning provides an added dimension to education. It focuses on improving cooperation, communication and decision making. But how is it taught? And how can parents keep up with what their kids are doing in school? Barbara Burgess, COO and Chief Vision Realization Officer at the Wright Foundation for the Realization of Human Potential, tells uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Tracy Weiner and Anne Johnsos about the building blocks of emotional intelligence and how parents can develop their own self-awareness.

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Like Anne and Tracy on the uh-PARENT-ly Facebook page here. Follow them on Instagram and Twitter. Call them at 331-704-0046, or email them at [email protected]. And check out Anne’s book, POTTY-MOUTHED: Big Thoughts from Little Brains.

People with dyslexia have difficulty reading or interpreting words, letters and other symbols. The disorder is not a reflection of general intelligence, but it can make traditional learning very difficult. Leslie Murphy, certified academic language practitioner at Resourceful Academics, tells uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Tracy Weiner and Anne Johnsos what to look for and how to treat this often-undiagnosed condition.

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To help fight dyslexia visit the Brent Sopel Foundation, founded by former Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brent Sopel, who grew up without being diagnosed.

In his 1969 book Between Parent and Teenager, Dr. Haim Ginott talked to teenagers who said their parents hovered over them like helicopters. Since then the term “helicopter parent” has focused on overprotective parents who failed to let their children grow for fear of them being hurt. Now a new book suggests “helicoptering” has some merits. uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Tracy Weiner and Anne Johnsos talk to economist Matthias Doepke of Northwestern University, who co-authored with Fabrizio Zilibotti of Yale University, the new book, Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids.

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Like Anne and Tracy on the uh-PARENT-ly Facebook page here. Follow them on Instagram and Twitter. Call them at 331-704-0046, or email them at [email protected]. And check out Anne’s book, POTTY-MOUTHED: Big Thoughts from Little Brains.

If you have a teenager, or if you were a teenager, you know the twists and turns on the social-emotional path toward adulthood — especially for girls. It was hard enough for the daughters of yesteryear, passing notes and hogging their parents’ land lines, but girls today have it much worse. Psychologist Lisa Damour, New York Times bestselling author of Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood, tells uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Tracy Weiner and Anne Johnsos that social media, constant connectivity and a lack of sleep all contribute to the increased stress and anxiety.  But in her new book, Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls, Damour explains why the news isn’t all bad.

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Like Anne and Tracy on the uh-PARENT-ly Facebook page here. Follow them on Instagram and Twitter. Call them at 331-704-0046, or email them at [email protected]. And check out Anne’s book, POTTY-MOUTHED: Big Thoughts from Little Brains.

Do you remember playing “dress up” as a kid? Did you take orders and serve fake food in your basement “restaurant?” How about running around without supervision until it was dark? Children are doing less of that today, and uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Tracy Weiner and Anne Johnsos want to know why. They talk to Dr. Roberta Golinkoff, Professor of Education, Psychological and Brain Sciences, and Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware and NYT best-selling author of Becoming Brilliant: What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children, about how unstructured play helps children learn and grow on the way to adulthood.

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Like Anne and Tracy on the uh-PARENT-ly Facebook page here. Follow them on Instagram and Twitter. Call them at 331-704-0046, or email them at [email protected]. And check out Anne’s book, POTTY-MOUTHED: Big Thoughts from Little Brains.

It’s time for school, but the kids aren’t ready. You yell, “Get in the car!” Nothing happens. You yell again. And again. And again. Sound familiar? Want it to change? uh-PARENT-ly cohosts Tracy Weiner and Anne Johnsos talk to Dr. Alan Kazdin, Sterling Professor of Psychology and Child Psychiatry at Yale, about the negative effects of yelling and how to get what you want without raising your voice.

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Like Anne and Tracy on the uh-PARENT-ly Facebook page here. Follow them on Instagram and Twitter. Call them at 331-704-0046, or email them at [email protected]. And check out Anne’s book, POTTY-MOUTHED: Big Thoughts from Little Brains.