Gwenn OKeeffe

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Congrats, Parents and Kids, Another School Year Well Done!

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Jun 11, 2010, 1:34 pm
With this year’s school year ending and all the award ceremonies and talk of achievements and accomplishments, let’s talk stock that while some achievements merit that added not at a ceremony with a certificate and a hand shake, most others are harder to pin down and require us parents t...
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Show 25 Preview: Small Kids Online…Is It Safe??

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Jun 10, 2010, 10:02 am
Show 25 Preview: Small Kids Online Is It Safe?? When should small kids get online? Is there a magic age? Is there a “best” way to start? What websites should small kids begin their online life with? And, most importantly, is it safe for small kids to be online? Tune in this week as...
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Disney's "Get Hatched": digital bells and mirrors, nothing more

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Jun 7, 2010, 9:59 am
With June being Internet Safety Month, I wanted to point out a common practice that some big websites use to lure you in – celebrity marketing. When online, our safety can be at risk from content, marketing tactics, privacy threats, or stranger danger. Today, I want to point out a common pract...
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Show 24 Preview: COPPA and Your Family

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Jun 1, 2010, 4:15 pm
Show 24 Preview: COPPA and Your Family Do you know what COPPA* means and how it applies to your family? Tune in this week to find out, and learn to use it to keep your kids safe and sound online. *COPPA: Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Show Date: Thursday June 3, 2010 Show T...
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Show 23 Wrap-up: Following Your Digital Footprints

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 28, 2010, 2:51 pm
This was my digital foot print according to EMC’s digital footprint tool at 10am ET today.  As I type this post, 4 1/2 hours later, at 2:30pm ET, my digital footprint has increased to 342, 646,507,000…and counting! That’s consistent with the 25k increase per hour we say during the...
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Show 23 Preview: Managing Your Family's Digital Footprints

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 27, 2010, 10:01 am
Show 23 Preview: Managing Your Family’s Digital Footprints Do you what a digital footprint is? Do you know where your family leaves their digital footprints? Check out this week’s show to learn everything there is to know about digital footprints, how to track them down, keep tabs of...
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To High School Graduates: Education First, Career Choice Second!

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 24, 2010, 8:00 am
It’s here again…high school graduation season. That annual rite of passage for high schoolers coast to coast to embark upon that much anticipated journey from home to that first true independent step outside the safety net of their childhood homes and communities. What always amazes me ...
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Grades Matter But Quality Childhood Matters More!

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 17, 2010, 7:00 am
Spring and standardized school testing become synonymous in many areas of the country for many, many public school students, including for my own children attending schools in Massachusetts. As this annual rite of passage rolls around, I’m reminded of how important it is to help our kids remem...
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Facing the participation gap in my family

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 14, 2010, 10:18 am
Do you have a technology participation gap in your family? We do. In fact, most families do somewhere. For us, we have a few older relatives who firmly believe that technology is for “the younger generation”. What’s interesting is that some of these people are not that old, at lea...
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Show 22 Preview: My Unplugged Experiment…Lessons Learned

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 14, 2010, 10:16 am
Show 22 Preview: My Unplugged Experiment Lessons Learned I recent had 2 weeks nearly unplugged, including some unplugged time with my kids – and survived! Tune into to hear about my ups, downs and lessons learned. Show Time: Noon ET Show Date: Friday May 14, 2010 SHOW NUTS AND BOLTS L...
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Children's Medication Recall: What you need to know

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 6, 2010, 2:34 pm
The massive recall last weekend of some of the most popular medications is unsettling, disturbing and concerning. Thankfully, it was done as a precautionary move before any child was harmed and there are generic alternatives of all the medications recalled, at sufficient supply. Still…having ...
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Show 21 Preview: Moms Who Rock!!

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 6, 2010, 7:00 am
Show 21 Preview: Moms Who Rock!! Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing moms in the world! Join me this week as I welcome onto the show author and parenting expert Jen Singer from www.MommasSaid.net to discuss all things moms and give you some “momspiration”! To learn more abo...
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Lessons Learned From Dr. Gwenn's 2 Week Unplugged Experiment

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 3, 2010, 7:39 am
Living unplugged. Pre-broadband I used to do it all the time.  In fact, it’s how we all lived. Post-broadband, it’s been exceptionally rare. Post-cell phone, iPhone especially, no way!  For the better part of the past 2 weeks, though, that’s exactly what I’ve managed to do&...
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Potty Training War of The Wills

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - May 1, 2010, 7:00 am
Q) Dear Dr. Gwenn: I have two toddler daughters , a two year old and a three year old.  We recently started potty training both of them and to our amazement they just took to it for  pee but poop has been a different story. We also have three older boys and didn’t have these issues –...
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Away and Unplugged for Vacation

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Apr 20, 2010, 8:00 am
I’m off on vacation and plan to stay unplugged while I’m gone in honor of this week’s Screen Turn Off Week. For inspiration to keep your screens off this week, check out the following links: Screens, Screens Everywhere and Time to Turn Them Off! A Dose of Dr. Gwenn Show 20: Surv...
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Nigel Barker: helping a nonprofit promote awareness, beauty and amazing kids!

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Apr 19, 2010, 8:00 am
We live in a society obsessed with outside beauty so it’s no wonder that parents whose children are born with any imperfection worry endlessly about how their child will be accepted in society. As parents, though, our job is to make sure our kids see themselves as much more than whatever obsta...
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Show 20 Preview: Surviving April Vacation Unplugged!

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Apr 15, 2010, 4:54 pm
Show 20 Preview: Spring Break Turn Off Week always falls during my kids’ Spring Vacation. Tune in as I talk about ways to deconnect, stay sane,  and why the timing is perfect for your family! Show Time: Noon pm ET Show Date: Friday April 16, 2010 Turn Off Information How to Keep Screens ...
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Frontline Digital Nation BlogHer '09

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Apr 12, 2010, 3:53 pm
Related posts:Kid Nation…much ado about nothing BlogHer 09 HealthCare By Committee Wrap-up, Part I It’s BlogHer Time! Related posts:Kid Nation…much ado about nothing BlogHer 09 HealthCare By Committee Wrap-up, Part I It’s BlogHer Time!
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words…or Calories!

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Apr 12, 2010, 2:13 pm
Shopping for groceries the other day, my kids noticed this product that made us all stop in our tracks: Chubby Drink from Aisle 7! Yes…this is a real product from a real major brand super market. Yes…the label does read “Chubby” and shows a picture of a, well, chubby kid. ...
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Show 19 Preview: Bullies In Your Back Yard 3 – Prevention Through Citizenship

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Apr 8, 2010, 7:17 am
Show 19 Preview: Bullies In Your Back Yard 3 Prevention Through Citizenship Bullying is on the rise and putting all our kids at risk, on and off line. Tune in to this week’s show, the third of this important series, as I welcome Stephen Balkam, CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute to h...
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Dr. Gwenn Is In recognized as a top blog for nurses

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Apr 7, 2010, 8:32 am
It’s always gratifying when another blog recognizes your blog in a “top blogs” list, especially when that blogger is a member of your own profession. I want to thank Nurse Debbie for including Dr. Gwenn Is In in her Top 25 Pediatric Nursing Blogs list. I know many of the blogs and...
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Potty Training Challenges

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Apr 6, 2010, 2:17 pm
Potty training, or, as I like to call it, ‘potty guiding’, is a toddler rite of passage no family can ignore, side-step or skip. In the thick of it, you wonder if you will ever get through it sanely and ask often if your child will ever  ”get there”…finally become pott...
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My Passover Memory: where are the plagues?

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Apr 2, 2010, 8:30 am
Happy Passover! This cartoon could easily be a scene from one of our family  Seders. Someone eventually “goes off script” and that always adds a fun element to the evening. Sixteen years ago, pregnant with our oldest daughter, I decided to host my first Seder. We attempted to cram abo...
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Show 18 Preview: Bullies In Your Back Yard 2 – Sensible Solutions with Dr. Joel Haber

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Mar 31, 2010, 11:14 am
Show 18: Bullies In Your Back Yard 2 Bullies are a huge problem for our kids today, on and offline. This week we continue our conversation by focusing on solutions that help our kids once we know our kids are being bullied. This week, we are joined by “the bully coach”, Dr. Joel Haber, ...
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If you missed the National Day of Unplugging, pick a day this week to celebrate!

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Mar 24, 2010, 9:40 am
Last weekend, Friday to Saturday, was the National Day of Unplugging…and I missed it.  Even if I knew of it’s existence last week, I wouldn’t have been able to participate due to a deadline that actually couldn’t be missed. This isn’t a huge deal for me, though. IR...
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Health Care Reform Passes. But, who really wins?

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Mar 23, 2010, 9:00 am
So, the Health Care Reform Bill passes yesterday in the House. Some people want to embrace this moment as a victory because any health care bill that becomes law is better than nothing. I heard a lot of “this was a long time coming”, “finally”, “it was our time yesterd...
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A Dose of Dr. Gwenn Show 17 Preview: Bullies In Your Back Yard 1

Gwenn OKeeffe posted an article on - Mar 18, 2010, 3:38 pm
Show 17: Bullies In Your Back Yard 1 Bullies are a huge problem for our kids today, on and offline. This week we start a multiweek conversation to try and figure out the problem, learn how to help our kids, and find ways to work with our schools and community groups to stop the bullies and help the...
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I'm a pediatrician, mom, health journalist and musician. With so many hats to wear each day, I know one of these days I'm going to wake up with a flat head!! You can learn more about me on my anchor website, Pediatrics Now, www.pediatricsnow.com. I love connecting with people online - so let me know what topics you want to learn about or have me talk about on my Blog Talk Radio show!

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