By Kristie Kakos All you hear is crying, yelling, and a tantrum. You are trying to enjoy a hot meal out, but have a two-month-old and a 2-year-old. The toddler is tugging at your shirt to pick her up. The baby wants her bottle. Then, the toddler screams because [...]
By Stephanie Olson I was curious to find out and research more about how video games might affect the development of young children. They are too often exposed to explicit and dangerous images through playing video games like Call of Duty, Grand Theft Auto, or Fortnite. There is way [...]
By Jacob Aldrich If you have been on the internet for the past couple of months, you might have heard of some people named IShowSpeed or Kai Cenat. These are some of the top streamers in the world and have a very popular audience with the 10- to 20-year-old [...]
By Stephanie Olson It is easy for parents to stop their baby from crying or being fussy by turning on their favorite show to watch on YouTube. This is normalized in society today, but is it detrimental to the baby's development? Too much screen time at such a young [...]
By Jacob Aldrich A 2022 study from the Entertainment Software Association found that around 71% of American children under 18 play video games at least an hour a week in some form and about 65% of American adults play video games at least an hour a week. These numbers [...]
By Jasmine London-Thomas The year was 2008, I was 12 years old, and social media was booming. My friends and I were on instant messaging sites such as AIM, Meebo, etc. Some people we met on these social media sites were around our age group, while others were not. [...]
By Tylar Bloch Chatbots such as ChatGPT are great at giving us answers fast. But many educators are finding that the speed at which these answers are generated comes at a cost to students’ learning. When kids can easily generate responses to an English essay prompt or a question [...]
By David A. Scattone Tablets are great learning tools for my children. They may never go to Egypt to see the Great Pyramid of Giza, but they could watch a documentary from National Geographic online. Some of our relatives live far away so the best way for us to [...]
By Stephanie Olson A lot of children have their own iPad these days, it’s rare to see kids playing outside anymore or truly enjoying their youth with something other than a screen. Times are changing with the constant growth of technology, but children shouldn’t own an iPad that they [...]
By Jacob Aldrich Most people who play video games, or have children who play video games, know all about microtransactions, even if they don't recognize the word. Buying more lives in a game, getting a new avatar skin, or buying points to upgrade your characters abilities are all just [...]
