Parenting Bytes

Companies like Cambridge Analytica take your info from Facebook and use it in ways you've probably never even thought of.

Rebecca Levey and Amy Oztan discuss a new article about teens and sexting,

Rebecca Levey and Amy Oztan sit down with friend-of-the-show and KidzVuz co-founder Nancy Friedman

Rebecca Levey and Amy Oztan discuss the abundance of tech gear out there for parents, and whether it's all really necessary!

Rebecca Levey and Amy Oztan have a fantastic, helpful discussion with Elizabeth Dankoski, founder of The Dream School Project.

Andrea Smith and Amy Oztan are here with their favorite smart home products from CES!

Hosts Rebecca Levey, Amy Oztan, and Andrea Smith were joined this week by friend-of-the-show Michelle Ruiz to talk about her excellent article in Real Simple about kids and sleep.

Friend-of-the-show and CNN Digital Correspondent Kelly Wallace wrote a thoughtful piece about how the #MeToo movement is affecting teen girls

If you have a tween or teen, chances are you've heard of author Sarah Mlynowski

Andrea Smith and Amy Oztan are back from CES and are filling Rebecca in on all the great products they saw at CES for families and kids!

Amy Oztan and Andrea Smith have been walking the floor at CES in Las Vegas to find the most innovative tech for 2018!

Do you need to be a better person?

This episode was orginally posted on February 11, 2016.

Even if you love this time of year, it still has its headaches.

This episode was originally posted on December 8, 2016. This week we're talking about how to keep your kids believing in Santa (if you do that) when it's so easy for them to find things out with google. Plus, teacher gifts: Yes, no, and what? Santa Santa. He's basically one big lie, but so many of us do the dance in order to give our kids a magical Christmas. And the new Macy's "Believe" campaign is trying to bring that magic back. But why do we do it? Andrea thinks we do it for leverage over our kids ("You'd better behave or I'm telling Santa!"). Rebecca thinks that since our kids get stuff all the time, all year, the renewed interest in Santa is an attempt to make Christmas gifts special again. And Amy thinks it's crazy to perpetuate this lie, but she did it with her kids anyway! And is that kind of deception harmful? Last year we did an episode asking if Elf on the Shelf was teaching kids to live in a surveillance state. All of that may be beside the point, however. In the age of google

Amy Oztan and Andrea Smith are phoning it in from the Brooklyn and New Jersey Bureaus, respectively, to talk about holiday food and cooking.

Andrea Smith and Amy Oztan attended an informative event hosted by the Consumer Technology Association and Techlicious

This episode was originally posted on November 25, 2015.

It's that time of year again

The holiday shopping deals are appearing earlier and earlier