Is Apex Legends Safe? Apex Legends has taken the gaming world by storm! It was released February 4, 2019 by Respawn Entertainment. In one week, there were over 25 million registered users! We don’t usually write about desktop games, but Apex is so huge, which means […]
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**WARNING – the stories, words, and images included in this post are extremely graphic. But every child who has Instagram has instant access to photos like these. With zero parental controls. October 28, 2019 Update from the BBC – as a continued response to the suicide
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Is Internet Addiction Real? The May 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) was the first to include Internet gaming disorder in its research appendix . This means that it is not an “official” disorder in the DSM, but one on which the American Psychiatric Association requests
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My Child is Caught up in Pornography – Help! If your child is caught up in viewing online pornography, we’ve found these steps to be helpful. We’ve tried to place them in some semblance of a sequence, but we also realize that in these situations, it’s
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Is violence in video games to blame? On March 8, 2018, President Trump hosted a gathering to discuss the role of violence in video games on the behaviors of young people. Those in attendance included: Entertainment Software Association CEO Mike Gallagher Patricia Vance, president of
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Happy Birthday, Daughter! Tonight I stand on the verge of my daughter’s twelfth birthday, in complete denial that this day has arrived. As a parent, we often slog through long days, but short years and the past 12 years have swept by oh so quickly. Can you
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(Updated January 12, 2024) Recently, I presented to a group of parents at a charter school about our digital culture. At the end of my talk, a father named Anthony asked me, “Chris, my 5-year-old likes to use our tablet. What should I say to him
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You might wonder why a tech guy would ever try to write about masturbation. This one word causes awkward squirming and lack of eye-contact like no other. No one wants to talk about it. Parents want to ignore it. But here’s an uncomfortable reality –tweens and
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