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Reformed Mommy Vloggers – Finding Privacy Post-Popularity

By Noah Boonov Previously on this blog, I’ve been open about what it was like growing up online. One of the reasons I spent many hours on Twitter and Tumblr as a kid and teenager was perpetuated by my love for YouTube. I’ve consumed hours upon hours of videos. I used to stay up until […]

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Watch the P/I/K Book Launch

In case you missed the Parenting/Internet/Kids: Domesticating Technologies hybrid launch, held on Friday, October 7, 2022 at the University of Winnipeg, you can watch it here: https://uwcloud.uwinnipeg.ca/s/PMgs7w6yXfW3G6Y Let us know your thoughts! Posted by Fiona Green and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers

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Reflecting on Parenting/Internet/Kids

with co-editors Fiona Joy Green and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers How did the collection come to be? For over a decade, we have been thinking about the complex relationship between blogging and parenting: how it’s a boon for information sharing, yet how it is easily abused by oversharing. From this angle we were interested in the responsibilities […]

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National Bullying Prevention Month

by Lisa Rosen and Linda Rubin I received an email from my children’s school district alerting me that October is National Bullying Prevention Month in the USA. The email indicated that the district wanted to collaborate with families on this initiative. I eagerly followed the link provided for parent resources and found a page with […]

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Back to School in the 4th wave

by Fiona Joy Green and Jaqueline McLeod Rogers Just when we thought it was safe to go out again, hoping for a return to some sense of normalcy in the September school term, we are hitting a red alert about rising Delta variant numbers. For parents of school age children this marks the third school […]

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Communicating Across Cultures

by Suzanne Kamata When I learned a little over twenty-one years ago that my daughter was deaf and had cerebral palsy, I was worried about how I would communicate with her. For one thing, we were (and still are) living in Japan. It was hard enough for me, as an American, to communicate with my […]