If you have been reading my Mindful Digital Life Friday posts for a while, you know that I recommend creating a weekly family practice of conversations about technology. Over time, these conversations can build essential skills needed today for a mindful digital life—inward facing skills such as self-reflection and self-monitoring, and outward facing skills such as investigation, fact-checking, curation. What key ingredients are necessary for these conversations to succeed? Curiosity, an open mind, and highlighting the awesome as much as identifying the challenges will go a long way in building the trust levels necessary for deeper conversations to flourish. [Read more…] about Growing the skills necessary for a mindful digital life