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In 2016 and 2015 I made a list of best Christmas STEM Toys for kids! If I may ...
It takes two incomes to buy a home, my kids can’t play on the street any more, and I never get invited to dinner parties.
Funny how the people telling kids to get jobs in the trades tend to be white-collar.
Kids today are safer than we were when we were their age, but much less able to do anything on their own.
Motivated reasoning means you can always invent new stories
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand the use of intrusive age…
Microsoft wants to turn kids' love of Minecraft into a love of computer programming through a partnership with Code.org, announced on Monday morning.
Until the sale of contraception pills in 1960, no one needed a reason to have children.
Motivated reasoning means you can always invent new stories
I’ve been writing letters to my kids for over a decade and will soon be handing them over.
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will put online services behind age gates, expand th…
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Online child safety deserves more nuanced policy
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<p>I'm currently reading "JavaScript for Kids" and it's a whole lot of fun. Though marketed for children I think that humans of any age could get a lot out of it if they wanted to start learning JavaScript. If technical books were more like this, with fun illustrations and frivolous use of exclamation marks, I'd read a lot more of them!</p>
Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life , host Ira Glass digs into how the kids landed there and why. But it mostly boils down to kids getting creative to work around the restrictions placed on them. When Glass asked one of the kids why they picked this particular podcast, they said, "We just, like, looked for podcasts that didn't have many comments." Which, obviously, hurt Glass's feelings a bit. Initially, showrunner Dave Blanchard thought the comments were a … Read the full story at The Verge.