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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Tag: screen time
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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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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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 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 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 climbing up a curly slide. Sunshine and fresh air, right? The problem is that we […]
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