"There are actually ways to use technology to create more quality family time....'Technology has brought me closer to my family. Parents need to keep the dialogue open about technology if they don't want to be shut out of their children's lives.'

Let your fingers do the talking. Text with your kids. 'Children can't roll their eyes at you or use a sarcastic tone in a text message...'texting limits negative interactions. Plus, parents tend to be long-winded, and texting is better suited to adolescent attention spans."

- "Family Time 2.0," Better Homes and Gardens magazine

Obviously Better Homes and Gardens never heard of kids "doing hard things" or "children obey your parents in the Lord" or anything like that. I'm not a parent yet, but when that time comes, I don't plan on finding parenting advice from this magazine!

HOW TO WRITE GOOD!

1. Avoid alliteration always.

2. Prepositions are no words to end sentences with.

3. Avoid clichés like the plague.

4. Employ the vernacular ad nauseam.

5. Eschew ampersands & abbrev., etc.

6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.

7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

8. Contractions aren’t acceptable.

9. Foreign words are not apropos.

10. As Emerson said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”

11. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.

12. One should never generalize.

13. Don’t be redundant; it is highly superfluous to use more words than necessary.

14. Be specific, more or less.

15. Understatement is insipid.

16. Exaggeration is infinitely worse than understatement.

17. One word sentences? Simple. Eliminate!

18. The passive voice is to be avoided.

19. Bad analogies are like feathers on a snake.

20. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

21. Who needs rhetorical questions?

22. Colloquialisms are grody to the max.

23. Abjure polysyllabic obfuscations.

24. Finally, chech for pselling errors and typeos.