When your child calls and you can’t help, it is terrifying. As a parent, your job is to protect them, but when they are out in the big wide world in trouble and you are far away, there is nothing […]
Jaron Lanier on the dangers of social media and the future of our digital lives Jaron Lanier is one of the foremost digital visionaries of our times, rather than a business man. A key pioneer of virtual reality (a term […]
Are our children lacking in emotional intelligence because of the way they live in the world these days? A new study has suggested that children as young as three are hindering their emotional intelligence by spending too long staring at […]
I have just found out about a new device called “Canary” that I know some parents are finding hugely useful in tracking the whereabouts of their children in the house when they’re not in. I assume these above mentioned parents […]
There was an article in The Times last week entitled “Girls unhappy, stressed and addicted to web” which I am puzzled about and I think it should have been titled “British girls are the most ambitious and driven girls in […]
I watched with great interest “A Child Of Our Time” last night because I too have a child born in 2000 who is also sixteen. To be honest, I didn’t learn a thing, but I suppose that is because I […]
Are our teenagers in crisis? In particular the girls? Around 35% of 14-15 year old girls are suffering from symptoms of psychological distress – the figure for boys is just 15% according to a new survey by the Department of […]
If you thought you were having a bad hair day then think again. Fresher’s week is every parents nightmare. When you send your happy shiny child out into the big wide world and no longer have any control over their […]
I assume schools are including a section about internet safety day in their assemblies today and overall children are becoming a lot more savvy about how to use the internet and what not to post, but there are still masses […]
This is interesting – what do you think? “Look Up” one man’s attempt to question our new online lives via a poem on the state of social media and how we all seem to missing vast swathes of real life […]
Here is a very interesting article written by Steve Keenan about how tourist boards are using social media to get their message across:- This weekend, 28 bloggers will arrive in Canada to begin an epic rail trip from three different […]
I quite often have disagreements with people my age about their views on social media. About how they believe that it is proving to be the decline and fall of civilisation as we know it because nobody actually bothers to […]
