November 15, 2016
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Nicholas Echevarria/
The idea of teaching young children about the nuances of programming logic is quickly becoming more commonly accepted. Doing so benefits all types of skills, from visualization to problem solving, and help ...
November 3, 2016
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Nicholas Echevarria/
As a child, there’s not much better than having a full set of Legos to go to town on. As adults, there isn’t much out there as fondly remembered as the classic building blocks. Now, with the explosion of ...
October 4, 2016
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Nicholas Echevarria/
The sedentary nature of today’s youth is well-documented, leading many to deride the role screen time contributes to the problem. With applications like Pokemon GO leading a change in mainstream attitudes ...
September 22, 2016
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Nicholas Echevarria/
The prevalence of smartphones and tablets is something that needs to be carefully managed around children lest they become too attached. It’s been proven that too much screen time can have an adverse on ...
August 15, 2016
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Nicholas Echevarria/
Technology has never been more prevalent than it is now, especially for the children who, at younger and younger ages, are exposed to more and more of it. But instead of subscribing to the idea that technology ...
July 22, 2016
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Jeff Berman/
Kids’ smartwatches tend to merely be stripped-down versions of standard smartwatches, with fewer features but more colorful designs. Octopus is a twist on kids’ smartwatches, featuring a simple, icon-based user ...
July 21, 2016
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Jeff Berman/
Every parent wants their babies to get some sleep because if an infant doesn’t sleep, the adults don’t either. Suzy Snooze is a three-in-one device that uses light and sound to soothe kids to sleep — ...
July 12, 2016
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Nicholas Echevarria/
Back before the advent of smartphones, kids used to go to this thing called “outside.” In this magical place, anything was possible. There were usually other kids out there, too, and together they were ...
July 1, 2016
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Jeff Berman/
Kids are spending an awful lot of time sitting in front of smartphones and tablets playing games and surfing the Internet. But all that slouching they are doing can result in terrible posture that leads to medical ...
June 27, 2016
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Nicholas Echevarria/
Childhood obesity is a problem that continues to grow in the United States: over the past 30 years alone, the rate of obese children and adolescents has more than doubled, which means that almost one-third of them ...