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The Circle With Disney Review
Melody reviews The Circle with Disney and takes her first steps into the world of online parental controls.
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8 Tips to Limit Tech Over the Holidays
What’s topping your kids’ holiday wish lists this year? Chances are it has a screen, Internet access, and games. With a little planning–and kids’ assistance–you can balance your family’s tech activities with much-needed face time.
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Zachary Levi and Bert Team Up to Get You to Go Outside
Sesame Street has long been known for taking full advantage of the Internet with unforgettable videos. Today’s message is for the parents!
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Is Screen Time Bad for Children?
On October 28, 2013, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new recommendations calling on parents to severely limit the time their children spend in front of a screen. These recommendations arise from studies that have largely debunked the myth of “educational” media, especially for children under 2 years of age, and show even in older children a correlation between total hours of screen time and childhood obesity, lack of sleep, school problems, aggression and other behavior issues. As a geek that has spent many happy hours in front of various screens, I don’t want to believe that exposing my child to many of the things I love could be harmful. But as a dad I have to seriously consider the possibility.
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I Took My 15-Month-Old to the Movies
I took my toddler to see Monsters University. She loved every minute of it, and that worried me.
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16-Year-Old Intel ISEF Winner Talks Screen-Time, Sleep, Cognition and Her Love of Science
High school junior, Zarin Rahman, from Brookings High School in South Dakota took home top prize in the Behavioral and Social Sciences category at last week’s ISEF, for her study of how screen time and sleep affect mood, memory and cognition. Here GeekDad chats with Rahman about her work and her love of science.
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Screen Free Week: The Wrong Conversation
As someone who makes games for kids to play on screens, I’m not a fan of the Center for a Commercial Free Childhood’s Screen-Free Week, which begins today. I’m all for kids getting more unstructured play, more time outdoors, more time reading, and other good stuff, but the label “Screen-Free Week” forces the wrong conversation that lasts all year long.
Continue ReadingWatch Video Games Instead of TV
My family loves video games. However, like most families, we live on a budget. This means we can neither afford to buy one of every console available nor even keep up with the new games released for the two platforms …
Continue ReadingHallmark BlogOut Challenge: Family Time Offline
One of the biggest challenges many families face is spending good, quality time together. Especially as children get older and become involved in sports and their own social lives, finding opportunities to just be with each other becomes more difficult. Sometimes, even though everyone is at home, each is engaged with one kind of screen or another so they […]
Continue ReadingParents, It’s Time to Engage
I was listening to the radio while taking my daughter to preschool, and heard a discussion about new recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding TV and screen time. This topic was already covered in more depth last week …
Continue ReadingWhat the AAP Should Have Said About Screen Time
In 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with a strong recommendation for parents to avoid TV for children under the age of two. The AAP admits that this policy was based on limited data and was a precautionary measure, and 12 years later they’ve revisited their guidelines with the new data now available. […]
Continue ReadingDr. GeekMom or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Screens
I don’t know if it’s just my corner of Manhattan, but more and more I find myself in conversations with parents who have thrown out their TV, won’t allow video games into their house, or think that handheld gadgets are the downfall of civilization. Here on GeekMom, Jessamyn made a recommendation to try a week […]
Continue ReadingGeek Lifts Off On Lemon Education
Education systems are a mess the world over. We know this, but we are dauntless geek parents. When we’re given a lemon situation, we don’t just make lemonade; we make rocket fuel! I don’t actually know if it’s possible or wise to launch a rocket using citrus, but if that’s what it takes to keep […]
Continue ReadingIRL Lessons: Declaring Recess From Screen Time
“Mom! I can spell your name!” Look at him: Only four years old and fearlessly riding the wave of the future. Given my druthers, he’d be running around outside with other neighborhood kids, getting dizzy spinning on a swing, or …
Continue ReadingIRL Lessons: Declaring Recess From Screen Time
“Mom! I can spell your name!” Look at him: Only four years old and fearlessly riding the wave of the future. Given my druthers, he’d be running around outside with other neighborhood kids, getting dizzy spinning on a swing, or climbing up a curly slide. Sunshine and fresh air, right? The problem is that we […]
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