Rebecca Black was only thirteen years old when her music video, “Friday,” went viral. A deluge of scorn and mockery followed. Six years later, she opened up about her experience in an essay on NBC: “What I Learned from Being a Target of Internet Hate at Age 13.” As parents, when we read about […]
Video games and online gaming have only increased in popularity since the early days of Pong. Unfortunately, not all gaming content has stayed as innocent as ping-pong. Many mainstream games are growing more and more violent. While parents and educators worry about the effect of intimate interaction with violence, albeit artificial violence, gaming apologists have
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Swipe left. Swipe right. Double tap. Level up– diagnostic complete! Researchers have developed a game for the iPad that allows them to analyze a child’s hand motions to determine whether or not the child is on the autism spectrum. The study, published in the Nature group journal Scientific Reports highlights an aspect of autism
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In a recent interview with online magazine Mirror, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, outlined his family’s screen time rules. No phones for the kids until age fourteen, no screens at the dinner table, and an evening curfew for the internet. Gates’ three daughters are 20, 17, and 14 years old now, so presumably the rules are
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A recent study suggests elementary school aged children’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes may be affected by large amounts of screen time. The paper, published in the journal Archives of Disease in Childhood, surveyed about 4500 children between nine and ten years of age and measured various health markers like height to weight ratio, fat
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Happy Tuesday! On the second day of the week, we feature a review from one of our Clean Router customers. We love hearing how Clean Router has improved their lives! Today’s review is from Elizabeth. She says: “We LOVE our Clean Router! I take it for granted until we use the Internet away from
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A new study concluded that there is a certain amount of screen time that is beneficial for teens. Published in the scientific journal Psychological Science, the researchers followed 120,000 adolescents in the UK to see if there was a relationship between overall well-being and amount of time plugged in. Initially, there seemed to be no
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Is your family looking for a meaningful New Year’s resolution with far-reaching consequences? Check out these statistics about cyberbullying to spark a conversation in your family about why cyberbullying hurts and what each person can do to end it! *58% of kids admit someone has said something mean to them online. Almost half of kids
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