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Last week I was at the library to pick up some DVDs and books using the new curbside service. Long story short my order was mixed up and I ended up waiting and waiting and after one of the gracious servers had looked high and low for my DVDs and books I gave up and […]

Screens n Kids had the opportunity to interview the author Eleanor Chun behind the awesome kids book The Invisibles. The genius idea / theme behind the book is to speak to kids on the importance of spending some time away from their screens and back to the fundamentals of childhood play – the creativity, the

I was watching a video the other day of former Facebook vice president of user growth Chamath Palihapitya and a couple of lines that were profound were “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. That is truly where we are.” My children are not allowed to use

Having a three year old means after an hour or two of watching Paw Patrol it is easy to switch off the Wifi and tell our toddler “the internet is gone.” It is low key deceitful actually the first days it was sad to see his innocence. He simply says “oh, no more internet” and

Kids Feel secure when they know what the rules are – Fred Rogers This term has stuck in my head from a movie that came out in the early 2000s by Samuel L Jackson…it just sounds so good – Rules of Engagement. I think about any high stakes activity – a diffuse team about to

Today we will get a bit scientific as we dig a bit deeper into the term “technological insomnia.” Before we entered the technology era, our bodies were in sync with the rising and setting of the sun. In the evening, people had candles, fireplaces and oil lamps to light their environment.  Nowadays most of us

Did you know that from birth to age 5, a child’s brain develops more than at any other time in life. And early brain development has a lasting impact on a child’s ability to learn and succeed in school and life. The quality of a child’s experiences in the first few years of life –