The Marble Jar Channel

Hi, everyone!  I'm Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and today we are going to going to talk about the discussion you should be having with your teen girls about Noodz - or sending racy photos on the Internet.  Listen up, parents of middle school and high school girls!  You HAVE to have this talk with your kids. If you've already done it -- good job!  If not, let's talk through some of the points you should make.  First of all, let's just acknowledge that this is happening. Boys are asking for Noodz and girls are sending them. I know you'll be shocked to hear that the reverse is rarely true. The term Noodz or just Nudes covers a range of photos that includes actual nudes to just compromising ones with more skin showing than usual.   There are 2 things I'd like to change about how these conversations usually happen. First of all, we tend to have these conversations AFTER something has happened. That's okay -- that conversation is important t...

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and today I'm going to share my secret for how I lock up my kid's cell phone.  Here's the scenario -- you've grounded your kid and taken away their phone. Now - what do you do with the phone?  With some kids you might be able to keep it in plain sight with a stern warning not to touch it. That definitely did not work with my son.  It's possible that he started out with good intentions, but it was just too tempting to have a quick look if he happened to see a notification flash up on the lock screen.  And then the phone was back in his hands again.  Cue a giant mother-son screaming match.  So, I took to hiding the phone.  And it became this somewhat elaborate game of hide and seek. There were 2 problems to this: 1) it took creativity and mental energy to come up with new hiding spots and 2) sometimes my hiding spot was so good that I would actually forget where I put the phone...