Plugged-In Parent Cheat Sheet

04/02/2022

Teens, according to our recent survey, wish their parents knew: “You can’t pause online games”; “TikTok”; “that not every song is about s*x and drugs”; “K-pop”; and “that it is different from when they were teenagers!”

The Plugged-In Parent Almanac is the one volume parents need to better understand the pop culture that consumes tweens’ and teens’ attention in 2022. It's available now on Amazon here
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07/08/2021

To help parents, Wise Action Company's Plugged-In Parent team created a quick guide about the influencers, media and retailers shaping shaping kids' fashion and beauty wish lists. Get a copy at https://pluggedinparent.guide

26/07/2021

Exclusively for Plugged-In Parent Cheat Sheet subscribers, Quick Guides prepare you to connect with your kids. Download your copy of the TikTok Quick Guide here: https://www.pluggedinparent.guide/quickguides

26/07/2021

Olympic athletes are destined to have a significant impact on the broader pop culture capturing tweens and teens attention more than ever before. Subscribe to Plugged-In Parent Cheat Sheet here https://pluggedinparent.guide to keep-up.

06/06/2021

"June," according to astrologer , "is a major astrological month filled with thrills, chills, drama, big love — and every feeling in between." It's also the start of summer! We've just published our June pop-culture planning calendar to help parents of tweens & teens get summer ready. Subscribe to Wise Action Company's Plugged-In Parent Cheat Sheet here https://lnkd.in/djfNfRU

22/11/2020

27/09/2020

For our kids, the new school day might be like that envisioned by Isaac Asimov in his 1953 short story "The Fun They Had":

"The screen was lit up, and it said: 'Today's arithmetic lesson is on the addition of proper fractions. Please insert yesterday's homework in the proper slot.' Margie did so with a sigh. She was thinking about the old schools they had when her grandfather's grandfather was a little boy. All the kids from the whole neighbourhood came, laughing and shouting in the schoolyard, sitting together in the schoolroom, going home together at the end of the day. They learned the same things so they could help one another on the homework and talk about it."

Science and dystopian fiction is popular with tweens and teens for some very good reasons.

18/09/2020

We like watching things together. As reported by Psychology Today, researchers have identified many possible explanations. And social psychologist Sarah Gomillion explained in Scientific American that "couples can use shared experiences with TV shows and movies as a strategy to compensate for lacking shared social experiences in the real-world."

Since there's not a lot of real-world social experiences going on right now, tech companies are quickly trying to fill the void with "joint video viewing" functionality. Facebook Messenger added "Watch Together" this week.

15/06/2020

Plugged-In Parent Cheat Sheet turned to Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Terry Steele, who started the Facebook group My Edible Garden While at Home in response to sheltering in place. He gave us five tips to starting a summer garden.

Plugged-In Parent Cheat Sheet turned to Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Terry Steele, who started the Facebook group My Edible Garden While at Home in res...

15/06/2020

Lisa Heffernan is the co-founder of Grown & Flown and author of the best selling book of the same name. She just wrote “It’s Not Too Late to Get a Virtual Internship” for the New York Times. In this interview with Plugged-In Parent Cheat Sheet, she is passing on tips for reimagining summer internships.

Lisa Heffernan is the co-founder of Grown & Flown (https://www.grownandflown.com), the #1 website for parents of teens and college students in the nation, an...

15/06/2020

Although some kids may be Zoom-ed out after distance learning all spring, many camps are pivoting to offer virtual options for families. And, there are a lot of options. The New York Times reports that many parents are feeling skeptical about plunking our kids in front of a screen and saying, “have fun at summer camp!”

Executive Editor Brad Bessey turns to the smartest person we know for all things camping, Laurie Browne, PhD, Director of Research for the American Camp Association, to get the download about virtual camps.

Although some kids may be Zoom-ed out after distance learning all spring, many camps are pivoting to offer virtual options for families. And, there are a lot...

15/06/2020

Executive Editor Brad Bessey amusement parks with Nicole Antonio of AFAR magazine for this week's edition. A bit of trivia: the oldest continuously operating park in the U.S. is Lake Compounce (CT), which opened in 1846.

Theme parks across the country are beginning to open, which leaves so many questions as we begin to think of perhaps venturing out into the world for actual,...

04/06/2020

Executive Editor Brad Bessey did a Facebook Live event tonight with Life of Dad

27/05/2020

27/05/2020