kids and tech

Spoiler: You have to look at how often you check your own phone, too. There is no denying that technology is going to play a vast part in our children’s lives, that much is clear.  Another fact that is going to have a massive effect on their entire generation is that the age when tech […]

3 years ago

Thoughts? Loose Women star Carol McGiffin recently ended up causing a debate among parents – and her co-stars – for suggesting that giving kids tablets is essentially the same as  ‘giving them a dummy’. In other words – just to make them stay quiet. The TV presenter spoke out against letting children watch films or […]

4 years ago

Screen time use by toddlers and preschoolers has exploded over the last decade. And possible, even more so, especially so over the past year-and-half, as we have all stayed at home and done our best to work and cook and homeschool siblings while also trying to entertain rowdy toddlers. These days, everywhere you go, from […]

5 years ago

A great initiative. In the UK, under-18s who want nude pictures or videos of themselves removed from the internet can now report the images through an online tool. The service – from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and Childline – aims to help children who have been groomed, or whose partners have posted photos of […]

5 years ago

This is shocking. According to a new UK survey, more than half of primary school teachers have reported ‘disturbing’ sexual harassment of pupils in the past year. A third (33 percent) of the teachers polled said they were aware of incidents such as verbal sexual harassment including cat-calling and wolf-whistling and the sharing of pornography. […]

5 years ago

We live in a world where increasingly, more and more of children’s time is spent in front of a screen. This is, of course, time that is then not being spent playing, being outside, doing sports, exploring, reading, or enjoying time with family and friends – IRL. This is, of course, a worrying development, and […]

5 years ago