It’s so easy to overshare in the Age of the Internet. From selfies to what you ate for dinner, oversharing is the norm. But what if your pictures and posts are helping to provide a crystal-clear picture of your life for criminals? Military families often adhere to OPSEC and PERSEC, but fail to remember that […]
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How To Get Your Kids Away From Electronics And Out Exploring Nature

This content is sponsored by the Breastfeeding Shop. Technology isn’t always a bad thing, but more and more kids can’t tear themselves away from electronics, whether it be video games, cell phones, or the TV. The child obesity rate is higher now than it has ever been, in part thanks to the mass […]
Rocky and Elmo want providers to “Watch. Ask. Share.”

Health care providers now have exciting new resources to help them work with patients from military families, thanks to research-based content on the Sesame Street for Military Families website. In a video on the new provider section, Vice Adm. Raquel Bono welcomes health care providers to the website while standing beside Sesame Street’s Elmo. Bono, director […]
This App Will Change Breastfeeding Military Moms’ Lives

This post is sponsored by The Breastfeeding Shop. I seriously wish that I had The Breastfeeding Shop app about a year ago. Actually, make that four years ago. As a new mom, I struggled a lot. The biggest challenge was keeping track of everything on very little sleep. Every doctors visit brought endless questions about […]
Fitness trackers and OPSEC: Time to lock it down

Track your workouts with Strava paired with a fitness watch of some kind? Yeah, me too. Apparently we’ve all been coughing up our location to the terrorists without a second thought. Or at least I was until Monday. That’s when I saw this story about a bunch of presumably intelligent troops and operators who were (I’m guessing unknowingly) letting […]
New exercise app wants to help Guardsmen train smarter

Tired of doing the same workout routine? Not seeing the results you’d like? Guard Your Health, a health and wellness campaign for Army National Guard Soldiers, is here to help. Use these tips and resources to train smarter: Download Guard Fit Take the guess work out of training with Guard Fit, the first and only […]
Builders tap into social media to reach homebuyers

We’ve all seen the way homebuying has changed over the years. Today’s savvy buyers are doing more research ahead of time than ever before, and they walk into a real estate or sales office educated about their choices. Social media — especially Facebook, Pinterest, Foursquare, Twitter and YouTube — has become increasingly important in the […]
How a principal’s ‘extreme’ experiment got kids to turn off their phones

Diana Smith is growing so concerned about the potential perils of technology on kids’ psyches and behavior that she devised a refreshing solution this summer. Call it pay-per-not-view. Smith, principal at the Washington Latin Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., challenged her eighth- and ninth-grade students to put down their phones, laptops, tablets and video […]