Mary Marcus, CBS It’s no longer surprising to see a toddler barely old enough to walk or talk intuitively start swiping the screen of a smartphone. More American children are getting comfortable using mobile technology at younger ages. And according […]
Alina Selyukh, NPR When it comes to anti-bullying campaigns, Kortney Peagram has seen many: Wear this bracelet if you’re not a bully, respond to something mean with something nice. They come and go like fads, she says: “These awareness campaigns, […]
Nicole Lyn Pesce, Daily News Kids are jumping on the fitness band-wagon. Many parents are seeing their little ones taking a sudden interest in wearable activity trackers — like the Apple Watch that Jennifer Owens’ 12-year-old daughter, Gwendolyn, borrowed this […]
Jennifer Kelly Geddes, Parenting Facebook, Twitter, Shelfari, Moshi Monsters, Club Penguin, The SIMS—the list of online games and social networking sites seems to grow longer every day. Also on the upswing: the alarming headlines about cyberbullying, sexting, and other forms […]
Sreedhar Potarazu, CNN It is 10 o’clock. Do you know where your children are? A decade ago, if your answer to that question was, “Yes, at home,” you felt comfortable that your children were in a safe and secure place. […]
Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Post “In a world where ‘screen time’ is becoming simply ‘time,’ our policies must evolve or become obsolete.” That was the American Academy of Pediatrics folding like a cheap suit. The AAP had previously recommended […]
Victoria Ward, The Telegraph Children as young as seven are developing hunchbacks and curved spines because of the hours spent bending over smart phones and tablets, a chiropractor has claimed. Dr James Carter warned that he had seen an “alarming […]
Liz Stinson, Wired When Raul Gutierrez’s son was younger, he came up with a great name for his father’s smartphone. “He’d call it the everything machine,” says Gutierrez, founder of childrens’ app company Tinybop. “Because to him it could do everything.” […]
Natasha Singer, NY Times As part of a class last year on “Romeo and Juliet,” Jennie Choi, an English teacher at Mariano Azuela Elementary School in Chicago, took her sixth-grade students on a tour of Verona, the Italian city where […]
Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY Back to stress is inevitable, and a whole new round of classes means crazy schedules, after-school activities, and too little sleep. Without enough Z’s, we’re nothing more than a bunch of slobbering zombies, and we often forget […]
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