by Leah Langby | Jun 3, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Pew Research Center has a new survey report out about the way teens and parents view screen time. I read the overview , and here are a few things I thought were interesting: More than half of parents feel like teens are distracted from in-person...
by Leah Langby | May 1, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
Photo by bruce mars from PexelsThere is an excellent article in The Hill by Dr. Jenny Radesky, a pediatrician who helped to write the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines about screen time and media use. The World Health Organization...
by Leah Langby | May 31, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Arthur Rackham illustration from Goldilocks and the Three Bears, from PixabayA recent study from the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital showed that reading aloud, combined with pictures, is the sweet spot for developing children’s brains. ...
by Leah Langby | Mar 21, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Cynthia Marie Hoffman, flickrThanks to Jenna Gilles-Turner for sharing this information with me about an upcoming webinar, sponsored by the Children’s Screen Time Action Network–webinar will be coming up tomorrow at 2 pm: Face-to-Face: Empowering...
by Leah Langby | Jan 31, 2018 | Keeping Up With Kids
Image from PixabayThere’s been a lot of press recently about the new Facebook Messenger Kids app that Facebook rolled out in early December of last year. Messenger Kids is designed for kids as young as six (or even younger) to use social media to connect...
