Screen Time

Best of the Web: the viral ad helping parents talk to their kids about pornography, and more…

The viral video from New Zealand helping parents on the issue of kids watching pornography, why it's okay to cry in front of your children, encouraging emotional intelligence in boys, and the new approach to screen to time during COVID-19.

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Let kids learn through play, Four Corners on 'digi kids', Big Bird interview as Sesame Street turns 50, and more

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Worried about young people and technology? Try talking to them

There's growing unease about the technology use of young people. As a starting point, we should ask them what they think, writes Aine Maher.

Opinion

Best of the Web: Screen Time has Little Impact on Teens, and more

What's the real impact of screen time on teens, teaching kids critical thinking, and anti-bullying programs that harm.

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Technoference: the Habit Parents should Drop

Is your child competing for attention with your mobile phone? Here are seven tips to reduce screen time and increase family time, from Sheri Madigan, Thomas Browne and Rachel Eirich

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Best of the Web: Teens Who Don’t Read Books, and more…

Concern over teenagers reading less, imagine a family life without devices, amd how to teach kids what news to trust.

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Listening and Asking: What I’ve learnt about parenting

Michael Broadstock reflects on how the Feuerstein approach to children's thinking and learning has had a big impact on his parenting - and what he discovered on a walk with the kids.

Opinion

Best of the Web: Raising Happy Kids in the Digital Age, Why Kids should Talk Back, and Parenting with MND

Why getting kids outside matters more than ever, encouraging conversations between adults and children, and parenting with MND.

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Kids and Screen Time: Why Parents Should ‘Drop the Guilt’

A new book urges parents to 'embrace the good' that screens can offer. We speak to the author Anya Kamenetz.

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