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Forest Schools : a growing alternative for parents wanting less screen-time for kids

In Denmark, forest schools allow children to take risks like climbing on trees and rocks and roaming through nature freely, rather than learning at a desk.

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Roblox : Parents warned over sexually suggestive material

Cyber-safety experts have sounded the alarm over vulnerabilities in popular gaming platform Roblox that could leave children exposed to sexually suggestive content.

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Agonizing over screen time? Follow the three Cs.

Parents can let down their guard. What matters is child, content and context.

In terms of content, quality matters more than the quantity of time or size of screens being used.

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Shut down your computers, kids & lace up

As any parent overseeing homeschool knows: Zoom P.E. is more like your kid lying on the floor of the living room doing halfhearted leg-lifts by the light of her laptop.

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Have smartphones destroyed a generation?

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

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Electronic Screen Syndrome : An unrecognized disorder?

ESS is essentially a disorder of dysregulation. Dysregulation can be defined as an inability to modulate one’s mood, attention, or level of arousal in a manner appropriate to one’s environment.