Six hours a week. That’s the national average for a U.S. kid, age 2-17, to spend time playing online games on a mobile device. More surprising, though, is this fact: “Ninety-one percent of children play video games, and gaming among young children has increased...
The CDC just announced that for the second year in a row, the U.S. fertility rate hit a record low, to just 60.2 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age. This decline in the number of babies has had ripples in our economy, as manufacturers of disposable...
One of the ways to take the burden of child discipline off your shoulders is to remember the resource of “natural consequences.” A dad recorded a video of his son jogging to school that demonstrates natural consequences. The video went viral last...
Even before “sitterphones” (using a smartphone to entertain a young child), even before tablets, there was television, what one media expert called “the flickering blue parent.” Recently a landmark study tracked the effect of television on developing brains, and the...
