WELCOME

Welcome to Concerned about Teens and Tech. I am so glad you have chosen to visit this site. Let me take a second to introduce you to the blog. Concerned about Teens and Tech is simply a place for parents and other concerned adults to come together, learn about how technology is affecting the teens in their lives and help one another in their efforts to support their kids. As a mother, I created this site after watching my own teens suffer to grow and develop in the digital world. I noticed that they were suffering in ways that were different than those that I experienced throughout adolescence. At first this was a source of frustration for me. I thought that my children were just difficult. However after much thought and researched, I realized that my kids were struggling because they had a new obstacle in their lives that they had to overcome before maturing that previous generations didn’t have. They were surrounded by technology. And while this technology improved many aspects of life, I quickly learned that it was also impacting the development of my teens. This has complicated life for them and me. I had to learn how to parent them and help them through the difficulties they were facing. I also realized that I am not the only parent facing this, so I wanted to create a space where others could learn about how technology is impacting their teens and converse about their own experiences parenting and living in the digital world.