Grit, resilience, perseverance, and emotional intelligence are all crucial for success, but how to help kids develop these traits nowadays?
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Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development is pleased to announce that it has awarded a grant of $100,000 to Marc Potenza, PhD, MD, Professor of Psychiatry
While social, racial, and economic disparities have always existed within the educational system, the COVID-19 pandemic is exasperating these inequities and widening gaps between students at a drastic rate, and
Do you find yourself mindlessly scrolling through Twitter or Instagram for hours on end? If so, you’ve experienced the power of persuasive design.
The transition to online learning presents challenges to all families with school-aged kids; and for parents of children with developmental disabilities, these challenges hold an additional layer of complexity.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to push children’s social and educational lives online, digital privacy is more critical than ever.
Whether they learn about these issues from the news, from friends, or from social media, children of all ages are aware of what’s happening, and it’s important for parents to
Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, parents were grappling with the effects of screen time on their children’s sleep habits.
Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development is pleased to announce that it has awarded three new interdisciplinary scientific research grants exploring the mental, cognitive and physical effects of
With the ever-increasing social media use among teens and tweens resulting from COVID-19, it’s important for parents and families to pay attention to how their kids are connecting on these
While summer usually means barbecues, beach days, and family vacations, this summer promises to be very different due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Children and Screens have teamed up with some of the top experts in the fields of parenting, education, and child psychology to bring you a new series of helpful hints
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