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Guilt has perhaps always been part of selecting and giving gifts for children at Christmas. However, in 2021, after two…
If you planned ahead, you’ll have taken this Monday off to play some games. There’s a public holiday on Tuesday…
TikTok, a social media platform targeted at young mobile phone users, was the second-most downloaded app in the world in 2019. It…
Parenting can be tough at the best of times, but family life has changed dramatically during social isolation that’s been mandated by COVID-19. The good news is that children thrive in an incredible variety of settings. Emerging evidence suggests that a little stress, particular in the context of a supportive parent-child relationship, can actually be beneficial because it builds resilience when taking on future challenges.
You’ve got the younglings at home and are trying to keep your job as productive as possible while still wrangling them and the pets and social distancing and you just need a little peace. Sound about right? Rolls-Royce, of all folks, might have a few minutes of silence for you.
During this pandemic, it is fair to say that pre-COVID-19 family routines may shift, or even completely fall apart! In our new COVID-19 reality, daycare and school are cancelled, parents are working from home and families are engaging in social distancing, leaving no peers for kids to play with.
The education app known for teaching users foreign languages, and their very passive-aggressive owl, is branching out into the field of basic…
Many young people spend significantly more time using screens than is recommended by health professionals. Excessive screen time has been blamed for several ills, including obesity and poor mental health. To mitigate these negative effects, we need to understand the things that encourage children to spend lots of time in front of a screen.
Phones, tablets and laptops are usually at the top of many teenage wish lists at Christmas. But parents often worry that giving their children a mobile phone might mean they never see them again. Will they stay locked away in their room for the whole Christmas break? It turns out that might not be such a bad thing.