Kids should not touch PCs
Shrink says leave them alone until age nine A top shrink has called for a ban on children under the age of nine from using computers because the technology is scrambling damaging their brains. Talking...
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"Small children today are more likely to navigate with a mouse, play a computer game and increasingly – operate a smartphone – than swim, tie their shoelaces or make their own breakfast. This is...
View ArticleThe Internet Makes a Lousy Babysitter (VIDEO)
"Parents need to get educated and get control of what is going on in their house. The campaign is a wake up call to parents that the internet makes a lousy babysitter and pornography is just a typo...
View ArticleVideo Game Playing Increases Food Intake In Teens
"There have been plenty of anecdotal associations between gaming and obesity. Now Canadian and Danish researchers have tested the hypothesis that video game playing leads to increased spontaneous food...
View ArticleZuckerberg: Kids under 13 should be allowed on Facebook
"Zuckerberg said he wants younger kids to be allowed on social networking sites like Facebook. Currently, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) mandates that websites that collect...
View ArticleKid sells one of his kidneys so he can buy an iPad 2
"On April 28th, the boy went to Chenzhou City in neighboring Hunan Province for the kidney removal surgery arranged by the broker. He was paid 22,000 yuan (an extra 2,000–) or $3,400 after his right...
View ArticleA child's hobby? Average gamer is 37 years old
"According to the organization, which represents the game industry, the average gamer today is 37 years old. Moreover, the average game buyer is 41 years old. Because of that, a greater number of...
View ArticleToddler can spot hardware problems
"A paper published in Science claims that toddlers can spot if an electronic gadget is suffering from a hardware, software or operator effort.read more
View ArticleExercise games don’t stop kids being FAT!
"Parents, who hope that giving their fat kids Nintendo Wii exercise games will sort them out, are fooling themselves, according to new research. A study undertaken by the Children's Nutrition Research...
View ArticleBan under-threes from watching television, says study
"Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol, on the amount of time children spend watching screens – and under-threes should be kept away from the television...
View ArticleKids should not touch PCs
Shrink says leave them alone until age nine A top shrink has called for a ban on children under the age of nine from using computers because the technology is scrambling damaging their brains. Talking...
View ArticleStudy Shows Young Kids Learn Tech Skills before Life Skills
"Small children today are more likely to navigate with a mouse, play a computer game and increasingly – operate a smartphone – than swim, tie their shoelaces or make their own breakfast. This is...
View ArticleThe Internet Makes a Lousy Babysitter (VIDEO)
"Parents need to get educated and get control of what is going on in their house. The campaign is a wake up call to parents that the internet makes a lousy babysitter and pornography is just a typo...
View ArticleVideo Game Playing Increases Food Intake In Teens
"There have been plenty of anecdotal associations between gaming and obesity. Now Canadian and Danish researchers have tested the hypothesis that video game playing leads to increased spontaneous food...
View ArticleZuckerberg: Kids under 13 should be allowed on Facebook
"Zuckerberg said he wants younger kids to be allowed on social networking sites like Facebook. Currently, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) mandates that websites that collect...
View ArticleKid sells one of his kidneys so he can buy an iPad 2
"On April 28th, the boy went to Chenzhou City in neighboring Hunan Province for the kidney removal surgery arranged by the broker. He was paid 22,000 yuan (an extra 2,000–) or $3,400 after his right...
View ArticleA child's hobby? Average gamer is 37 years old
"According to the organization, which represents the game industry, the average gamer today is 37 years old. Moreover, the average game buyer is 41 years old. Because of that, a greater number of...
View ArticleToddler can spot hardware problems
"A paper published in Science claims that toddlers can spot if an electronic gadget is suffering from a hardware, software or operator effort.read more
View ArticleExercise games don’t stop kids being FAT!
"Parents, who hope that giving their fat kids Nintendo Wii exercise games will sort them out, are fooling themselves, according to new research. A study undertaken by the Children's Nutrition Research...
View ArticleBan under-threes from watching television, says study
"Doctors and government health officials should set limits, as they do for alcohol, on the amount of time children spend watching screens – and under-threes should be kept away from the television...
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