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 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 [...]
The kids are not alright, they are dying! According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), overdose deaths among young people has increased dramatically. Among young people 14–18 years, overdose deaths increased 94% from 2019 to 2020 and 20% from 2020 to 2021. At a time when [...]
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 Stephanie Olson Teenagers have multiple social media apps that they scroll through for hours on a daily basis. They are not the only ones that are guilty of doing this because many adults are also addicted to keeping up with their latest celebrities, influencers or even their old [...]
According to Javelin Strategy & Research, your kids are navigating extreme online risks that are largely overlooked by parents and guardians. The research institute warns that lenient attitudes around social media use are creating an easy entry point for criminals to target children (AKA – your kids!) and that [...]
By Tylar Bloch Technology has made it easier than ever for kids to access information about the world. In the realm of sex education, however, technology may be unable to fully replace the role that parents can play in teaching their kids about the importance of healthy sexual habits. [...]
By Tylar Bloch When you’re reading the news, it’s easy to take the facts at face value. This is especially true when news comes in the form of social media posts and videos, where information can be presented enticingly and without much of the context needed to fully capture [...]
By Kristie Kakos Since the start of chat rooms, social media platforms and any back-and-forth communication between two, or more individuals cyberbullying started evolving. Personally, I come from the “millennial” generation. This generation is considered “digital natives”. We have seen rapid technological growth. This would be such as computers [...]
