The Marble Jar Channel

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll give you some tips for curing your Fortnite addiction.  I did a video a little while ago for parents and talked about how addictive the video game Fortnite is.  So, reading through the comments, I can tell most of the views on that video are not by parents — it’s mostly teenage boys, who are clearly searching “Fortnite Addiction” on YouTube.  Since I’m a middle aged parent, not every viewer likes my message, but there were a couple of comments from kids who are legitimately trying to find a way to quit or cut down on Fortnite use, so I thought I’d do a video on tips for that.  Addiction Here’s one thing to be happy about —  Fortnite is not a chemical addiction like nicotine or heroin.  It’s behavioral like food addictions or shop lifting.  That doesn’t mean it is easy to break, but you aren’t having to battle both your brain and your body. You jus...

Hi, everybody!  I'm Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel. In this video, I'm going to tell you why I chose the name Marble Jar for my YouTube channel and blog. If you've seen my channel trailer, you'll know that my primary interest is in parenting in a world of constant internet access and using technology to help. But I also have a bunch of other curiosities and wanted to create a blog or channel that wasn't super limited and also reflected some things that I felt were important.  I decided to name my blog Marble Jar and today I'm going to share the 4 reasons I picked that name.  Visual -  The first and most obvious reason is that it is super visual. In other words, when I say Marble Jar, it is almost impossible for you to not generate an image of jar of colorful marbles in your mind. That visualization makes it easy to remember and, because marbles are usually multicolored, it's a fun, vibrant image to carry around in your head. Plus it'...