Archive - Mentoring Kids in a Connected World with Devorah Heitner

Growing Up in Public is 1.99 today!

(read it with your friends!)

Sep 24 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

August 2024

Roller Coasters and Inertia

Parenting a teenager and phantom braking

Aug 14 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

July 2024

Parental Control Laws on Apps Don't Solve Everything (and create new problems)

And some other ideas that can help (my opinion in Newsweek)

Jul 10 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

June 2024

Summer Screen Time and Space Invaders

Are you in the midst of graduations?

Jun 11 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

February 2024

Friends are more important than followers

And this is why I love the Free Cheese! episode of Reservation Dogs

Feb 29 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

January 2024

Is Gen Z Really Stressed about Aging?

Plus Traveling with (and without) my teen!

Jan 30 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

December 2023

Surviving finals, getting ready for winter "break"

My 9th grader is going through his first round of high school finals and it is taking me back to my own high school years.

Dec 13, 2023 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

November 2023

October 2023

College Admissions feels like Trick or Treating

The admissions Hunger Games and how kids are often more thougtful than parents when they post about it

Oct 31, 2023 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

Talking with kids about footage of violence

What does protecting kids mean in a world that looks like this?

Oct 17, 2023 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

Setting your kid up on Snapchat

and other parenting wins

Oct 9, 2023 •

Devorah Heitner, PhD

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