By Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development | Contributor With the ever-increasing social media use among teens and tweens resulting from COVID-19, it’s important for parents and families to pay attention to how their kids are connecting on these platforms, what their influences and interactions are,…
By Vanita Halliburton | Contributor We’ve all heard the saying, “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” Even though we know better, we sometimes let ourselves believe that other families are faring better in the child-rearing department than we are. We can convince ourselves that…
By Nick Kucholtz | Contributor Last Tuesday, I laced up a pair of dirty tennis shoes and went for a jog around my beloved University of Texas campus. There were no masses of college kids clogging Speedway. No loud buses driving by DKR. No students climbing up the steps in…
By Katie McCallum | Houston Methodist April 7, 2020 – To wear a mask or not to wear a mask? This question has been up for debate since the beginning of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In the early days of the pandemic, public health experts asked healthy people to avoid wearing…
By Sheryl Pidgeon | Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Like you, I am struggling to comprehend the enormity of the Coronavirus pandemic. I keep using the word “surreal” to describe my feelings. But it is all too real. While we as adults are attempting to wrap our arms around our continued plight,…
By Colleen Benzin | Managing Director, Apparent Insurance So many things about our lives right now aren’t “normal,” and we’re all learning how to adjust. But social distancing also offers us opportunities to build new skills and focus our attention on a handful of activities—and one is teaching your teen…
By Kevin Hall | President, Grant Halliburton Foundation Grant Halliburton Foundation takes the health and well-being of our community seriously and is continuing to monitor the situation as it relates to the coronavirus (COVID-19). In light of the current recommendations from the CDC, we are canceling or postponing the following events: • Coffee Days: Meetings canceled through…
By Dr. Dean Beckloff | Contributor Coronavirus—COVID 19—is striking fear in the hearts of folks all over the world, in the U.S., in each of the states, in our cities, in our homes. Theaters, sporting events, Apple stores, Disney World, schools—and on and on are closing. Toilet paper has become…