We often give our children a technological device with access to email or texting and forget to take the time to teach them about the dangers of cybercriminals.
Email is the most common method cybercriminals use, but more of them are also showing up by text. So we must take the time to teach our teens how cybercriminals operate and their digital attempts to manipulate, influence or deceive them into taking action that isn’t in their best interest.
3 Ways Cybercriminals Target Through Email and Text
Phishing: this is a process where cybercriminals will trick you with emails disguised as coming from a trusted contact or company. Cybercriminals send persuasive emails to get you to provide information or money by clicking on a malicious link or opening an infected attachment. The goal is to trick you into sharing data.
Spear phishing: these are communications that are targeted and appear more personal. Cybercriminals are getting good at mining personal information from the internet or your social media accounts to make the information in the email appear more legitimate.
Smishing: targeted text messages wanting you to click a link or take urgent action.
Our children must understand that cybercriminals want them to click or open a link to gain access to private accounts and personal information, and it’s up to us to teach them the warning signs, so they don’t fall into their trap.
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🚩 IDENTIFY THE RED FLAGS 🚩
Questions to ask yourself to determine if the suspicious email is legitimate…
Does the subject line lure you into urgency, asking you to act fast?
Does the content evoke emotion, making you feel that you must act immediately?
Did it come at an unusual time outside of business hours?
Are there typos or grammatical errors?
Can you verify the sender, or does the email address look shady?
Stay alert and stay skeptical! Listen to your intuition, and don’t take any action requested in an email or text unless you are confident the communication is legitimate. Teach your child to always run it by you if they aren’t sure before clicking on any link or following any action.
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Summer break is undoubtedly a great time to relax and vacation, but it’s also the perfect season to purposely teach your kids the life skills that will serve them well today and when they leave your home one day for adulthood.
Whether you have toddlers or teens, take the time over the summer months to teach your kids the life skills they may be lacking. During a busy school year, we sometimes don’t have an opportunity to teach our sons and daughters the crucial things they need to know.
Here are 11 life skills to teach your child this summer and beyond
1. Make a bed
Start simple. “If you can’t do the little things right, you will never be able to do the big things right. If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed,” said Naval Admiral William H. McRaven in his University of Texas at Austin 2014 commencement address.
Teach your kids to start each day by making their bed, reinforcing the fact that little things matter.
In this digital age we are raising kids in, we forget to teach our sons and daughters the basic skills of addressing an envelope properly or where to place the postage stamp. Do your kids know how much stamps cost or where to buy them? A perfect summer field trip might be to the post office.
This summer, have your son or daughter send postcards to their grandparents or other loved ones when you are traveling or mail them from your hometown. What thank you notes need to be written and mailed off to family and friends?
Whether it’s their sports bag or camp duffle, our sons and daughters need to learn to pack their bags with the contents they need without our help. If your child is younger, you may need to make a checklist for them to follow until they are in the habit of gathering everything by themselves. Older kids can make a list for themselves if need be.
The more you hold your kids responsible for their tasks, the more accountable they will become.
Most parents know to teach their children proper restaurant etiquette- to look at the server in the eye and order their meals for themselves while politely using their manners.
But, many times, we forget to teach our children how to tip. When you eat out this summer, take the time to show your older children how to figure 15%-20% of the bill so they can confidently tip the server when they are out to eat with friends or on a date one day.
5. Make money
If our children drive a car, carry around an iPhone with a data plan, or wear name-brand clothing and shoes, they undoubtedly need to contribute to paying for these privileges.
Even if we can afford a comfortable lifestyle, it doesn’t mean that we should hinder our child from learning the valuable life skills of working and earning money.
Can you come alongside your son or daughter and help them resell things online or start a business washing windows or mowing lawns? I’m also a big advocate of having teens get summer jobs in the community- at local restaurants and retailers like we used to do back in the day.
If our children are going to make money, they need to learn to manage it.
Help your child open a bank account eventually attached to a checkbook or debit card. Teach them how to go into a bank branch and talk to the teller and help them manage their account online.
If your child isn’t old enough to work yet, another way for them to learn to manage money is by giving them a consistent monthly allowance. Don’t pay your child for their performance or for doing chores. But instead, provide them with an allowance for being a valuable part of your family.
Everyone in our home is expected to pitch in, for the good of the family team, without getting paid a stipend for it. If you live in the house, you get to help take out the trash, empty the dishwasher, help with meals, and clean this or scrub that.
Your child should have repetitive contributing work that benefits the good of the entire household and not just responsibility for caring for their stuff.
8. Fill out paperwork
Come alongside your tweens and teens and begin teaching them how to fill out their camp, sports, and medical paperwork to the best of their ability now so that they are comfortable filling out their job and college applications one day.
Filling out paperwork is a pain that none of us enjoy, but it’s a fact of life that our older children can certainly handle.
I was driving my daughter’s friend home, and she couldn’t tell me where she lived. The 14-year-old knew her address but couldn’t tell me the major crossroads near her house. Her cell phone was dead, and she didn’t know her Dad’s phone number either.
The adult kindly driving our child home shouldn’t need a data plan to get them there. Our child should know parents’ phone numbers and how to direct an adult to the vicinity of their home without an app. Teach your son or daughter the major crossroads near your home and how to navigate the local area using their brain instead of a device.
10. Make a meal
The summer season is a perfect time to teach our sons and daughters how to navigate the kitchen.
Our younger children can make and pack their lunches for camp, while our older ones can come alongside us and learn to cook dinners for the entire family once in a while. It’s also essential to take the time to teach your child how to navigate the grocery store and shop smart.
Grab my Kitchen and Summer Skills Lists in my ‘How to Create A Summer of Significance Printable Pack HERE!
Be sure to check out my interview “How to Launch Your Teen on Purpose: Teaching Life Skills to Your Teens Today That Will Prepare Them for Tomorrow on Kids Cook Real Food!
11. Laundry from start to finish
Teach your child the task of doing their laundry from start to finish.
“Very few people have a washing machine that’s more complicated than a tablet. If they can work an iPad, they can do laundry,” said childhood expert Dr. Deborah Gilboa.
Take the time this summer to teach your child to do their laundry from start to finish.
We must remember that one of our main goals as a parent is to teach our children what they will need to know when they leave our home for adulthood. Use summer break as an opportunity to strengthen your son or daughter’s set of life skills.
What life skills will you strive to teach your child this summer?
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I’ve never been more thankful for technology than I am today. Our devices and connection to the internet allow us regular communication with our college kids and loved ones around the country.
Yet, this same technology that connects us to the vast world also has the power to disconnect us in our own homes if we’re not careful.
So, what can we parents do to set our loved ones up for success when it comes to digital devices?
Here are 5 Ways to Set Your Family up for Screen-Time Success
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This summer, if you find yourself spending more time at home and wanting to keep costs low, you’re in luck! There are plenty of fun, budget-friendly activities that can make your time together memorable and enjoyable. Dive into these creative and engaging ideas that will not only entertain but also strengthen family bonds without breaking the bank.
1. Plan a themed family night
Look at your summer calendar and see if there are any days coming up that you could purposely celebrate. For example, National Ice Cream Day is coming up in July. Why not surprise your family with an ice cream party that day or set up a sundae bar after dinner?
One of our family’s favorite theme nights we’ve ever had was a backward dinner, where everyone shows up to eat with their clothes on backward. You also serve the meal backward starting with dessert first and serving the salad last.
The point is to be silly and plan a fun family night that you wouldn’t ordinarily do.
2. Seek out Little Free Libraries
Little Free Libraries are “take one, leave one” book stations, and are located all over the place. Visiting Little Free Library locations with your child both encourages a healthy habit of reading and helps kids recycle books they’ve already read.
Our youngest and I enjoy trying to match the theme of the books we donate to the theme of the little library we are donating to, as we recently did at our local dog park. Get creative with your experiences and enjoy exploring your community together.
I’m giving you permission to stop playing cruise director and constantly entertaining your child this summer!
Boredom is mightily beneficial, if we are strong enough to allow our children to experience it. Use this summer downtime to let your kids figure out how to entertain themselves, by themselves, just like we had to do back in the day.
One way to set your son or daughter up for success is to help them create a Boredom Bucket, Bin, or Basket with quiet activities to occupy them when they don’t seem to know what to do with themselves. It’s that or a toilet bowl brush so let them take their pick!
Putting together a boredom bucket also doesn’t need to cost you anything, unless you want to mix in new items. Your child can choose what items go in the bucket or you can go through their room like I did and pick out small items that have rarely gotten used. You can also add new items to the bucket or switch items out throughout the summer to keep it fun.
4. Start dialogue journals
School may be over, but we want to keep up with our student’s penmanship. So, grab one of your child’s barely used notebooks from this school year and start a dialogue journal with your kids to help them:
Improve their penmanship.
Get more comfortable expressing their thoughts, feelings, and ideas through the written word.
Think about the thoughts and feelings of another in this interactive form of communication.
Create a keepsake from their childhood to be cherished later.
Click HERE for more details on how and why you may want to get started on this!
5. Strengthen life skills
Take the time to teach your children the life skills that will help them when they start back to school and beyond. What is it that your child needs to know and that they can learn to do this summer?
Not sure? Get my life skills age-appropriate summer task checklists HERE!
6. Go Geocaching
Here’s a family-friendly activity that’s high on both fun and fresh air. Geocaching is a modern-day treasure hunt offering lots of hidden containers (called caches) and tips and clues for finding them in public spaces such as parks. It was one of our kids’ favorite things they did as we traveled around the USA in our RV in 2014.
Create a free account HERE or download the app from Apple or Google Play on your smartphone. Make sure to bring hand sanitizer and a pen to sign and date the logbook in each geocache you find before placing it back where you found it.
7. Join a summer reading challenge
There are many ways to motivate your child to read more this summer. Start with your local public library to see what they are offering this summer or join in one of the many reading challenges being offered online.
8. Send postcards
Postcards are an easy way to get our kids working on their penmanship while sending some love through the mail this summer.
Who knew you can even order postcard stamps from the comfort of your home on Amazon right HERE. I like buying postcards showcasing our beautiful state, but you can buy unique sets of postcards like these if you don’t have an option or desire to purchase them locally.
9. Make a homemade treat in your kitchen together
Hanging out in the kitchen with your kids this summer will provide so many benefits! Not only will you have some fun together, but you will also have the chance to teach your children lifelong skills.
What recipe can you teach your kids how to make? Homemade Strawberry Fruit Rollups is one of our favorite family summer treats and it’s the only recipe I’ve ever posted on my blog!
One of the most important things we can do is take the time to create simple traditions in our homes that teach our kids the values we deem most important. One way to do this is to create an annual glass jar tradition to teach the values of generosity, gratitude, joy, or presence.
Our family created this chalk art masterpiece on our patio door during Coronavirus quarantine. Although faded now, this mosaic design we painted on our glass door brings me so much joy today. I don’t want to ever erase it!
Grab some masking or painter’s tape and create a design (with chalk markers) on your window or on your driveway and let each family member take part in bringing your artistic creation to life. Make it a fun, family affair!
What are other simple, fun, and low-cost activities to enjoy with your family this summer?
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God willing, we only get 18 summers with our kids, so how can we bring significance to this summer despite whatever our circumstances may be?
1. Strengthen your family values and purpose
Have you taken the time to claim your core values and purpose for raising your kids? It will be nearly impossible to live out a summer of significance if you haven’t taken the time to define what ‘significant’ even means to you.
Start by defining your core values and what it is you want to instill in your children while they are growing up under your care.
What do you want your son or daughter armored with when they leave your home one day headed into adulthood?
Claim it. Name it and strive to live it out this summer.
2. Prioritize play
Let’s take a deep breath and think about how you can bring more fun to your simple summer days.
How about planning a themed family dinner night? We still talk about the backward dinners we did when our kids were younger, where we all came to dinner wearing backward clothing and started our meal with dessert and ended with salad.
What is it that brings your family joy when you do it together? Plan more of THAT to create significant summer moments and memories for your family.
Click HERE for FREE ideas for being more playful this summer! (Be sure to look for my Boredom Bucket idea for helping kids to be playful on their own!)
3. Cultivate an atmosphere of growth
What’s something that didn’t go so well for your child during this school year? Focus on strengthening that area this summer.
While it’s important to play and relax, it’s also crucial to keep learning and growing through the summer months.
For instance, I’m so tired of online learning and am looking for ways to help my youngest keep up with his math skills. This summer we’re using Learning Math Wrap-Ups to strengthen his multiplication and division facts.
4. Teach life skills
Having the kids at home provides a perfect opportunity to teach them what it is we want them to know before they leave our homes for adulthood one day.
This summer we can take the opportunity to teach our children how to do their own laundry, cook, clean, or change a tire. Perhaps you can finally open that bank account or help your child start a business. Or simply teach them to tie their shoes or handwrite, address, and mail a thank you note.
What life skills will you purposely teach your child this summer?
Binge-watching random television shows, scrolling social media constantly, or playing video games non-stop isn’t a good use of our child’s time. Sure, there may be space for mindless entertainment choices this summer, but we must purposely set boundaries on them, so they don’t consume our days.
Why not purposely choose documentaries to educate yourself as well as create conversation in your family this summer?
Here’s a resource from Screenagers listing 10 documentaries to watch with your family.
Unfortunately, our epic trips, along with many other things are still on hold for this summer. As disappointing as not going on that cruise or European vacation may be, we have to pivot and plan for simpler adventures this summer.
Where can you plan to go explore, get out in nature, and enjoy the outdoors where you live?
Most likely, you don’t have to venture further than your home state for family fun. Many times we take for granted the beautiful places that surround us locally that we’ve never taken the time to visit… yet.
What adventures will you create this summer that will add to your family narrative and strengthen your relationships?
7. Celebrate life, and loved ones, in simple ways
What can you do to celebrate Dad on Father’s Day so that he feels special and loved?
When my kids were younger, they loved it when I planned a special day for each of them. My sons and daughter got to pick what they wanted to eat for breakfast in bed and what our family would do (within reason) that day.
In my Create a Summer of Significance Printable Pack, you will get monthly celebration calendars for you to plan your June, July, and August, as well as a fun fill-in-the-blank All About Dad printable for Father’s Day.
Questions to Ask Yourself-
What does each family member need this summer to strengthen them physically, mentally, emotionally, and relationally?
What frustrated you the most this school year? Work on improving that area this summer so that when school rolls around again you may have established better habits.
What summer family tradition can you repeat again this year? Summer wouldn’t be summer without this…. bike rides to the bagel shop or boating on the lake. What are the simple things your family does together that can happen this summer?
What is a way that you strive to create a Summer of Significance?
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As my firstborn sons wind down their senior year of high school, I question what I still need to teach them over these next couple of months before launching them off to their respective college campuses come August.
One area where we parents seem to fall short in our teaching is helping our son or daughter manage their health.
In general, we do a relatively good job of talking with our kids about the importance of eating a healthy diet while getting proper exercise and plenty of sleep. Yet, are we failing to prepare our kids to manage their health when they leave our homes?
From the many stories I’ve heard from doctors and nurses, I’m thinking so.
Emergency Room Nurse Charity Hollywood says she consistently sees ill-equipped young adults stream into the emergency room where she works near a large university campus in Arizona. She says that she is striving to raise her 6-year old twin sons to be confident and capable from a young age and encourages other parents to prepare their children better when it comes to managing their health.
What skills do young adults lack when it comes to their health?
What can parents do differently while raising their kids so that they can launch adults who are more confident and capable when managing their health?
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Growing up, I hung out at my best friend Mary’s house a lot, and, every once in a while, Mary’s mom would tell me it was time for their family conference and that I was going to need to leave. As my two feet carried me home, I thought about how their family ritual seemed strange. My parents didn’t do this sort of thing in our home, so why would my friend’s family need to have meetings when we didn’t?
As I aged, I began to appreciate the fact that Mary’s family set aside sacred time for them and them alone. Her Mom wasn’t worried about catering to me or anyone else that she had to send away to protect their family time. They had an intentional system to connect, and I carried that idea forward into my family today.
WHY SHOULD PARENTS CREATE A HABIT OF HOLDING FAMILY MEETINGS?
Because families today are going in all directions. Holding mindful family meetings is a way to slow down and purposely connect with your family members regularly. These meetings are a relaxed way for everyone to gather and communicate together.
Family meetings are a time to get honest about the strengths and weaknesses of your family and to talk about how things are going within your family unit and individually. Family meetings are meant to be fun and promote a sense of belonging.
HOW OFTEN SHOULD YOU HOLD FAMILY MEETINGS?
Weekly? Monthly? Quarterly?
Decide what works for your family according to your current schedule. If you have younger kids, it will be easier to meet up around the family table for weekly meetings. As kids get older, this becomes more difficult, although just as important.
Adriane Thompson of Raising Kids With Purpose says she and her husband, along with their three sons ages 9, 6, and 1, meet on Sunday evenings, and “the meetings are usually a mix of screaming, running around, dancing, and cheering with a dash of order.” She says that even with the chaos, something amazing happens:
Our kids have input on decisions that impact them.
Problems or challenges get addressed in a judgment-free zone.
Our family values are highlighted and reiterated.
We find out if something is going on with someone that didn’t come up during the week.
Everyone feels like they are part of something bigger than themselves and that they have others cheering them on.
Chores and family contributions are assigned.
HOW LONG SHOULD YOUR FAMILY MEETING LAST?
Adriane says they keep their weekly family meeting to 15 minutes. “When we first started having meetings, we would all say something nice about each person in our family. Then once all the compliments were finished, that person would get to dance around the house hearing us chant their name. My toddler loved this part. But what ended up happening was the meeting got dragged out making it too long to keep attention,” she said.
WHERE SHOULD YOU HOLD YOUR FAMILY MEETINGS?
I want our “formal” dining room table to be a place where we regularly gather for connective tech-free time together, so this is where we hold our meetings.
The Thompsons prefer to switch up where they meet, and Adriane says, “You may even want to consider changing it up once a month and doing it at a park, a froyo place, Chick-fil-A or somewhere where the kids can have fun afterward.”
FIGURE OUT YOUR PURPOSE
Claim what it is you want to accomplish through holding your family meetings.
“The goal of a Family Meeting should be to open communication between everyone in the family. Allowing our kids to have a voice gives them autonomy, but also in this type of environment they can get a lot of guidance and know who is ultimately in charge,” says Adriane.
SET THE MOOD
Purposely set the mood and tone of the room to match how you want your family meeting to feel. Do you want it to be fun and upbeat, or do you want it to be serene and serious? Our family meetings always include a dessert, and I light candles so that the space feels calm and inviting.
Adriane agrees to include a special treat for the kids to enjoy during the meeting. “This can be anything from popcorn, special smoothies, muffins to frozen yogurt. Our kids aren’t used to getting a lot of sweet treats, so a family meeting is a perfect time to let them indulge a little,” she says.
END THE MEETING WITH A FUN RITUAL OR FAMILY EVENT
When you have younger kids, you can add an element of fun to the very end of the meeting, such as a dance party or something silly.
For those with older kids, Audrey Monke, Mother of 5 and Writer at Sunshine Parenting says, “Playing a board game or watching your favorite TV show together could be a reward for having the meeting.”
PLAN YOUR AGENDA
Both Adriane and I, have Family Meeting Agendas that we print out and use for our family meetings, while Audrey says, “You don’t have to get fancy with your agenda. We keep ours on a legal pad, and we take turns being the “chair” of the meeting. Leading the session is good communication practice for kids.”
What’s working well in your family, and what’s not working so well?
What changes do we need to make and what do we want to keep the same?
Talk about a value or life skill you want to strengthen.
Discuss how well you are serving and loving other people.
Coordinate the Family Calendar.
Discuss any needs for school or work projects, so you get out of the habit of running out last minute for that poster board!
Do you want to pay allowance or any other rewards?
HOW TO KICK OFF THE MEETING
Start By Saying Something Nice
We used to start our family meetings by turning to the person next to us and saying something we loved about them. Complimenting one another no longer flies with teenagers, but that practice certainly made for some sweet memories and strengthened our bonds.
Use Conversation Starters
Our family loves using Conversation Starter products around the table. Our favorites are Togather or Food With Thought. These questions always seem to lighten the mood of the meeting, and we gain better insight into who one another is.
Say Highs and Lows
You can also begin with Highs and Lows, where everyone thinks of something positive and something not so positive that recently happened to them.
OTHER GREAT IDEAS TO INCLUDE
Word of the Week
Adriane says her family picks a word from a “words to make you sound smarter” list or “words to study for the SAT,” and they discuss the meaning as well as try to use it throughout the week. I love this idea!
Meal Planning
Take the time during meetings to plan your weekly dinner menu or to plan for school lunches. Get the whole family involved in what they want to eat for the week and decide who is going to help shop and make the meals too!
No matter if we are raising toddlers or teenagers, we must take the time and make an effort to connect with them regularly. Family meetings tell our kids that they matter. That our family matters. That our thoughts and actions matter.
Setting aside this sacred time for your family, whether it be weekly, monthly or quarterly, is a perfect way to let your kids know you care about them and the overall health of your entire family.
What do you think is important to include in family meetings?
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Childhood is short.
Summer is even shorter.
God willing, eighteen summers are what we get with our children at home full-time in our nest.
How will your family spend this precious summer season?
While June, July, and August may be perfect for lazy days and relaxation, we mustn’t make the mistake of aimlessly drifting through the summer months without purposely making a proactive plan for our family.
What exactly is it that you want and need?
I love that summer provides my teenagers mornings to sleep in and time to rest and recover from their normally stressful high school scheduled programming. Yet, more downtime equates to more screen time if we’re not mindful.
How can we get our kids off screens and make this summer count?
I know this summer of ours matters yet how do we make the most of it despite our realities and circumstances?
We must decide to deliberately design our summers.
I’m not sure how we’re already at this stage in our family, but I have to say these guys are way more fun now than they ever were 16 years ago!
The big question I’m asked is did we buy them three cars for their milestone birthday?
Not a chance.
If there was no car with a bow, no epic party or promised iPhone X, then what did we give our 16-year-olds besides a little cash?
Sometimes we can get so caught up in what material item to buy or what Pinterest worthy event to throw, that we forget what’s really important to give our kids- the gift of lifelong values.
1. The Gift of Desire
All my sons desired for their birthday was to get their drivers’ licenses and hit the open road. They wanted the gift of freedom as they turned 16, and that’s what we gave them- a ride to the DMV.
There was no party, no promise of the latest electronic or a new car. We had simply instilled in our boys the desire to set up their own appointments online to take the driving test the minute they could on their birthday. I wasn’t even aware that you could do that. Good for them.
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If witnessing your kids laying around on devices after school and on weekends is making you crazy now, how are you going to feel this summer when the time off beckons constant screen usage?
Become your child’s media mentor and make a plan to intentionally decrease screen use in your family this summer.
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