Providing information and resources for parents, youth workers and educators to help kids navigate their digital world.
Researchers say the combination of home confinement and too much time looking at digital screens appears to be severely impacting kids’ vision. Read the article here.
There’s little doubt remote learning and child care issues are pushing more parents to rely on screens to keep their children preoccupied during COVID-19. Read the article here.
Once school ends, a recent study finds two-thirds of children spend their evenings and weekends staring at up to four screens at once. Read the article here.
Protect Young Minds provides reasons that Instagram for kids is not developmentally age-appropriate. Read the article here.
Unique, complex information in analog methods likely gives brain more details to trigger memory. Read the article here.
Technology may help older children and adults connect with the world, but for toddlers, too much screen time may be doing lasting harm before they even enter school. Read the article here.
Two thirds of children use more than one screen at the same time after school, in the evenings and at weekends as part of increasingly sedentary lifestyles, according to new research. Read the article here.
Experts are particularly concerned about young people using multiple devices at the same time. Read the article here.
We can avoid long-term issues, according to expert Rachel Simmons, by proactively putting some guidelines in place that steer attitudes and actions. Read the article here.