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Moving toward simple.

March 18, 2015 by not your average mom 6 Comments

We backed off on the TV watching sometime last year. For a long time, I was really good about no TV in the morning and on school nights. Canceling the cable made it a little bit easier. Then I got my iPad and then eventually Number 3 and 4 got Kindles. We still had Netflix, […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: iPads, Kindles, limiting electronics for children

Smahtuh than he looks.

February 23, 2015 by not your average mom 2 Comments

There is a street in my town that only people who live here know how to pronounce. A street that, when said over the phone, is pretty much never spelled correctly by someone who hasn’t driven down that road. It’s ten letters long, and if you’ve never heard anyone say it, you wouldn’t know how to read it […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Crossy Road, iPads, Number 6, passwords

So much for that plan.

September 20, 2014 by not your average mom 5 Comments

I got an iPad last December. I thought I would spend a lot of time on it, doing work for the blog. In reality, I was spending most of my time tracking down which kid had gotten a hold of it, charging it back up after one of them had completely run down the battery, […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: birthday presents, iPads, Kindle Fire

Pavlov’s Dogs

March 5, 2014 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Number 6 is no dummy… Yesterday I wrote about him  and his temper. I thought he came about it all on his own. It was an innate thing. A developmental stage. Not really anything to do with me. Yesterday he woke up from his nap and asked for my iPad. He’s got a thing for my […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: 3 year olds, iPads, kids aren't stupid, Pavlov's Dogs, played by my three year old

She’s no Mary Poppins, that’s for sure.

January 21, 2014 by not your average mom 1 Comment

I still don’t totally know how to use my iPad. But I know how to use it to shut my kids up. They would stare at that thing and play games on it all day long if I allowed them to. I used to sit in judgement of parents who bought children under the age […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: babysitters, iPads, Siri

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