Category: Social Media

• ‘Staying Power’ on willtravelwithkids’ Third Anniversary

  

  When readers continue to view blog posts that have been published months and even years ago, WordPress calls it ‘staying power.’  Next month marks the third anniversary of willtravelwithkids and the site stats confirm that some articles published over the years have staying power.  If you’re new to willtravelwithkids, you may have missed those popular…

  willtravelwithkids

  January 29, 2015

  Social Media, Travel

• When honesty eclipses repentance

  

  Every day a blog or article pops up in my newsfeed touting the 10 Things Parent’s Won’t Tell You or 10 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Having Children or something else along those lines.  Someone confesses how challenging their life is, particularly compared to what it used to be, could be, or “should” be.  Comments…

  willtravelwithkids

  July 17, 2014

  Christian Life, Faith, Family, Parenting, Social Media

• Facebook: devalues true friends (and undermines well-being)

  Studies are confirming what we already know – if we aren’t guarded in our use of Facebook, it can have a negative emotional, psychological and, I add, spiritual impact on our lives.  This past week articles about Facebook’s negative impact have been trending on my wall.  Even the sermon at church touched upon Facebook and…

  willtravelwithkids

  August 19, 2013

  Christian Life, Faith, Family, Social Media

  community, Facebook, family, friends, Friendship, Social network, well-being

• American Road Trip (Part I): Father’s Day Melee at Multnomah Falls

  Cinnamon coated almonds could be one of the more mischievously decorated nuts. I call them spiced nuts, as cinnamon is one of my favorite spices; although my wife reminds me that the second ingredient in the cinnamon almonds carried by Trader Joe’s is sugar, arguably to encourage the cinnamon to remain affixed to the almond.…

  willtravelwithkids

  June 24, 2013

  Children, Family, Humor, Photography, Social Media, Tourism, Travel, United States

  Columbia River, Columbia River Gorge, fight, Oregon, parking lot, road trip, RV, vacation

• Transform your parenting perspective

  Lately, my social media outlets have been blasting out links to parenting articles like parenting is the latest fad.  You’re doing it all backwards, they say.  You’re doing it all wrong.  Parenting brings out people’s greatest fears and insecurities.  It also teaches us more about ourselves then we care to know.  So, that’s how short my…

  willtravelwithkids

  May 9, 2013

  Children, Christian Life, Faith, Family, Parenting, Social Media, Travel

  Child, children, Christian, culture, ethnocentrism, family, freedom, Home, Parent, parenting, Parenting styles, risk

• Traveling unwired and unfettered – Ohrid, Macedonia

  

  Sitting at a café in San Diego, slowly, carefully touching my lips to the rich espresso macchiatto every few minutes, I had no book, magazine or screen to demand my attention.  I just sat, sipped, watched and thought ‘this is okay’.  Dare I say good?  A few hours later as I ate a grilled chicken gruyère panini…

  willtravelwithkids

  March 7, 2013

  Children, Christian Life, Europe, Faith, Family, Macedonia, Parenting, Social Media, Tourism, Travel

  Lake Ohrid, Macedonia, Ohrid, parenting, travel

• Facebook: all about me and killing my friendships

  Why would someone post a picture of themselves in a bikini on Facebook?  Do they know that half the people who are their friends on Facebook may, perhaps, be married men who are trying to be faithful to their wives, even in their thought life?  It doesn’t matter to you.  It’s your Facebook so you…

  willtravelwithkids

  January 9, 2013

  Christian Life, Faith, Family, Parenting, Social Media, Travel

  blogging, communication, Facebook, fear, friends, Friendship, honesty, isolation, life, Microblogging, Online Communities, Pregnancy, Social media, Social network