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How To Play Fortnite With Your Kids
Frickin’ Fortnite. Your kids won’t stop playing it, and you’re fed up. What do you do? You could join one of the many parent support groups, or make a musical parody to vent your frustrations, or try locking the game consoles in the car and hiding the key (yes, this is really happening). Or you…
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How To Help Kids Concentrate In The Era Of Digital Distraction
When I was a child there weren’t many options for entertainment after school or on weekends: I could walk to a friend’s house. I could watch TV on our 13 fuzzy channels. Or I could read. And so I read, and read, and read — hours and even whole days would pass with no interruptions.…
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YouTube Kids Gets Redesigned To Help Parents Choose More Age-Appropriate Content
Parents (understandably) don’t want their kids to watch mindless drivel or disturbing cartoons. A redesigned YouTube Kids gives them more control.
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How Should We Teach Our Kids To Use Digital Media?
Any time a new technology is introduced, it disrupts values, routines and behaviours. This goes back well before the printing press replaced oral histories or the telephone replaced face-to-face conversations, but is evident today in our regular habits of checking our smartphones for notifications. Kids are growing up with the expectation of auto-playing streaming videos…