Today I realized I’m a huge hypocrite, and it’s not helping my youngest child.

Coming home today, I learned about a smart phone challenge they did on one of my favourite podcasts, Note to Self. The two goal of this challenge were, to get people to realize how much they used their phone, and to help them reduce that dependency.

They brought up research that explored the consequences of phone addiction. For example, if you take pictures all the time, of everything in your life, you...

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I just discovered Postach.io as a neat blogging system that uses Evernote! I am a huge fan of owning my own data and even went so far as to write my own wordpress plugin to export my posts to dropbox for safe keeping. With Postachio I can write a blog post, in Markdown even, in Evernote, from any of my devices and when I'm ready to publish, just add a tag 'published'. So awesome!!

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I have been reading up a lot on health and how to maintain a health lifestyle. There is lots of interesting research out there, including and article that showed that it didn’t matter much if people exercised if they sat most of the day (in the office, in the car, etc).

Back in the Good Ol’ Days, people did things “the hard way”. Walked to work, hand mowed their lawn, hung up their laundry, didn’t watch TV. Basically, they did “stuff” to keep active. These days we are all...

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Erin, yes I am referring to him as “the old dog”, is learning a new trick. He is changing his ways. He is choosing to eat a piece of fruit instead of ice cream. He is choosing to do something productive, like small home projects, instead of watching TV. He is choosing to go to bed early instead of staying up late surfing the web. He has accepted that he is a food snob and can no longer eat food that is salty, processed crap.

I’m proud of you, Old Dog! You are an inspiration.

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