parenting
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Sex, Drugs And Infidelity – This Kids’ App Is Out Of Control
The mobile game Episode has been downloaded more than 50 million times. If you have kids, they’ve probably played it. But it’s way more problematic than most people realise.
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Keep Kids Busy On Your Next Road Trip With ‘Backpack Time’
I think it’s fair to say that kids have a lot more options these days to stay entertained in the car on a road trip. What did we have? Books. Pen and paper. A Walkman, if we were lucky. And eventually, a boredom that ran deep enough to make the alphabet licence plate game sound…
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How To Introduce Your Kid To The Wild World Of Social Media
One of the trickiest parts of parenting is teaching our kids how to safely do things that have a great potential for harming them. It starts with teaching them to use scissors safely when they’re preschoolers, then sharp knives to cut their own food and, before we know it, how to drive a car. We…
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How To React If Your Kid Is Using Drugs
When it comes to our kids and drugs, we tend to focus on prevention—and rightfully so. We think about how to be good role models when it comes to substance use; we talk to them early and often about the dangers of drugs, peer pressure and hanging out with the wrong crowd. But what about…