Raising healthy, engaged, creative kids in today’s connected world demands real tech parenting superpowers. Are you ready for Roblox?
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How to Shed Distracted Parenting Guilt and Transform into a Digital Hero
Today’s outcry over distracted parenting can shade into unhelpful parent shaming. So let’s drop the finger wagging and technology blaming, and look at what actually works for real families having fun together.
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Building on a Passion: A Connected Camps Counselor Profile
Sometimes an interest becomes a passion, and if you’re lucky enough, that passion becomes part of your livelihood. That’s exactly what happened to Sam, aka greekgeeksam236, one of Connected Camps’ counselors.
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Learning Heroes: Epic or Fail?
Learning Heroes is a free website aimed at helping parents navigate the confusing and ever-changing waters of their kids’ K-12 educations. Learn what our reviewer had to say about its pros and cons.
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How to Engage Your Family by Making Together
Learn about the benefits of making together as a family and gain practical tips for getting started.
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Family Life with Virtual Assistants: A Review of Echo Dot Kids Edition
Echo Dot Kids Edition is the child-friendly version of the hockey puck-sized smart speaker from Amazon. Learn about our “glows” and “grows” for this kid-focused personal assistant.
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Foster Summer Learning Through Minecraft
For kids who love Minecraft, chances are the summer months will bring with them even more time for gaming. Find out how to support learning and prevent the summer slide for your junior gamer.
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Adventure Camp: Creating the Ultimate Minecraft Experience
One of the most exciting parts of Adventure Camp is the opportunity for campers to practice and expand on a wide range of skills, from storytelling, teamwork, and project management, to building and architecture, redstone engineering, and game design.
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Creative Camp in Minecraft: A Place for Gamers and Thespians Alike
By the end of this summer’s week-long theater-themed Creative Camp, campers will stage, star in, and film a fully realized theater production for which they wrote the script, designed the costumes, built the set, and managed the special effects—all in Minecraft.
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How Making Games Can Connect Kids to Community
Kids are natural game designers. See how they can benefit from forming bonds around their passions in game jams and community organizations.
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