More than a million nerve connections are made in the brain in the first few years of life. Babies and young children thrive with responsive caregiving, such as engaging a child in playful games that change as they grow.
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eParenting and Parenting in the 21st Century
eParenting used to mean keeping your kids safe on the Internet, however now it has a wider scope including parenting with the use of technology, and distance parenting. Curated by Peter Mellow |
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More than a million nerve connections are made in the brain in the first few years of life. Babies and young children thrive with responsive caregiving, such as engaging a child in playful games that change as they grow.
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Video games, collaboration and explicit instruction are helping neurodiverse children learn crucial social skills, University of Melbourne research shows
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But by gamifying my kids’ lives, I was toying with powers I did not understand.
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The principal of an inner Sydney school has asked parents to not let their children watch the violent MA show.
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Huge Kid Cesarean Birth in Hospital? Toddler Foot Doctor?
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Digital play can be a great substitute for play in the physical world. Research shows playing on a screen builds many of the same skills.
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A Bruegel painting, photographs by Helen Levitt, and a show in New Haven illustrate the changing nature of children’s games
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The world's first virtual mentoring world for teenagers who are deaf or hard of hearing has been set up inside popular sandbox game Minecraft.The initiati...
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School principals are concerned about students using online game 'Fortnite'.
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What if you could blend fun and life learning, making it a game that's enjoyable for the whole family?
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Exergames should be used to replace sedentary video games, not traditional physical education.
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Brain stimulating headsets are being enthusiastically taken up by gamers aiming to boost performance. But there are risks, particularly for children or those vulnerable to mental health problems.
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Games from the classic Monopoly to first-person shooter games such as Fallout 4 offer an exciting way to explore your morality in a realistic way
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A six-year-old racked up a credit card bill of more than $1,200 in just two days, playing games on his parents' tablet. - New Zealand Herald
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Synthetic cannabis may have been taken off the market, freeing parents from worrying about neighbourhood shops selling addictive drugs.
But for many parents of "tweens" and early teens, the biggest threat to family harmony is elsewhere - in the dozens of media including games, apps and social platforms that keep their children glued to screens of all sizes.
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Candy Crush Saga is a simple game but the hold it has over followers is strong. Now there are new entrants to the social gaming market: poker machine game manufacturers.
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If you spend any time at all on forums or games websites, you'll start to notice a certain kind of story routinely pops up. Someone has said something, or done something, or not said - New Zealand Herald
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Too much time in front of the screen playing the wrong kind of computer games can delay a child's development or lead to serious damage in adults, according to new research on the impact of media and technology on the brain.
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A UK watchdog unveils new rules to protect children and other gamers from exploitative in-app fees and warns it will prosecute those that breach them.
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Games have been accused of making people violent, but growing evidence suggests they can have positive effects, and scientists are beginning to understand why.
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VIDEO game designers have launched a brutal teardown of the affect violent video games have on behaviour, saying blaming video games on violence is like "finding your dad's Playboys under the bed and then blaming Playboy."...
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HIGH-intensity active video games are good for children’s health, according to a team of researchers from The University of Western Australia.
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My 4-year-old son is pretty obsessed right now with Star Wars Angry Birds on my iPad. Like, asking me first thing in the morning if he can play obsessed. Throw a massive temper-tantrum if I say no obsessed. Causing some alarm in his generally permissive when it comes to technology obsessed.
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New classification and a return of favourites heralds a bumper year.