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Category: social media etiquette
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Last year I wrote a post about checking with the parents (your adult kids) before posting pix of their kids (your Grands) on a social media site. I was neither prescient nor alone in calling attention to the photo-posting issue. Debates about publishing photos online have been going on since social networks became an integral…
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Lives there a grannie or gramps so dull who is not at the ready to pull out their iPhone and show off photos of their Grands–videos and stills, group shots and solos. We're all a little besotted when it comes to sharing the adorableness of our grandkids. But it's one thing to let friends hold…
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Our bags were packed, boarding passes downloaded and shuttle to the airport confirmed. The night before we were to leave to visit our son and his family for the weekend, a text arrived. Our DIL just wanted us to know she wouldn't be home when we arrived but our teenage granddaughter would be. Then the…
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Some of us have grandkids who are away at college. Naturally, we want to stay in touch. We may even expect that contact to be as close and regular as it was when they were youngsters living with their parents. And yet we may be disappointed that our in-college grandkids are a little more distant…
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When we have grandchildren we can be tugged into a competitive frenzy with out co-grandparents: If our grandkids see their other grandparents more often than they see us, does that mean they'll love them more? Is the bond between grandparent and grandchild dependent on gifts the other grandparents bring or favors we offer? A Carolyn…
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When teens visit, night-time cellphone rules are there for good reason.
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We may be out of our depths when it comes to advising our grown kids about their teenagers and the photos they post online.
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Social Media Etiquette: Facebook, Instagram and the risky business of sharing photos on the Internet
There are so many risks for our Grands when we psot or share their photos on social media sites.
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Empty nester alert: our kids don’t just leave home, they also leave our social media orbit.
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A survey limns the difference between our vonfidence in our tech know-how and how our grown kids perceive our knowledge and comfort with personal high tech stuff.
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