Like many parents, I struggle to strike a screen life balance. For better or worse, the portability of our digital life has disintegrated many of
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Tag: Parenting
Can Online Communities Improve Social Skills and Grow Confidence for Kids with Autism?
While some parents worry that their kids’ online life is a poor substitute for real world interactions, the reverse may be true for some children
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How I Bonded with My Son by Ignoring Gaming Limits
How to manage kids’ gaming time is a hot parenting topic. Parents worry about gaming “addiction,” “Minecrack,” and their kids’ lack of enthusiasm for offline
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How Unschooling Families Leverage Digital Games and Connectivity
To many, unschooling is a radical approach that is practiced in the exotic outer rings of education. Its rejection of formal education in favor of
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Level Up to Bridge the Digital Disconnect with Your Kids
In today’s frenetic media ecology, parents find it harder and harder to stay on top of their kids’ digital life. They might live under one
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How Online Communities Lower Social Barriers for Kids Across the Spectrum
Online communities let geographically separated kids connect around shared interests, and can also offer some distinct advantages over face-to-face discussions. For example, some parents of
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5 Ways Your Child’s Interests Can Motivate Learning with Scratch
By Sarah Otts and Natalie Rusk, members of the MIT Scratch Team In our research at the MIT Media Lab, we have found that children
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How to Get Kids Into Coding — 10 Myths and Realities
90% of parents in the U.S. want their child to learn coding and 71% of new STEM jobs will be in computer science. Still, the
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How to Get Your Daughters into Tech by Embracing Who They Really Are
Only 26% of computing professionals are women, which is down from 36% in 1991. Millions of dollars are being spent on closing this gender gap,
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Inspire a Young Animator with Mine-imator
Product: Mine-imator Glows: Fun, free, and easy to use. Grows: PC Only, features are fairly basic. Bottom Line: Mine-imator is a fun, free, and easy
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