Articles warning about the dangers of too much screen time for children overlook one of the dangerous side effects of letting kids watch a lot of TV shows. Children's TV theme songs can very easily become earworms that keep playing in parent's heads hours or even days after the last viewing of that particular show. … Continue reading Eight children’s TV theme songs that become parental earworms
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Bad movie moms? There are a lot of them, which makes these some of the worst Mother's Day movies. Or maybe they are the best Mother's Day movies? After all, these are all great movies, and your mother is bound to look wonderful by comparison to the bad moms portraying in these films. Would you … Continue reading Worst Mother’s Day movies: 7 really bad movie moms
I saw Lenore Skenazy, author of Free Range Kids, speak last night at the Families Together Cooperative Nursery School in Edgewater. (The event was arranged by fellow ChicagoNow blogger Christine Whitley.) Lenore Skenazy is smart, funny and appears in dozens of pages of search results for the term "America's Worst Mom." She earned this dubious … Continue reading Free Range Kids’ Lenore Skenazy reminds me of my independent childhood
Registration for summer sessions of Chicago Park District programs starts online April 15 and 16, and in person registration for most parks is April 20. This is absurdly early and not just because most new Chicago Park District programs won't start until July. The Chicago Park District registration for summer programs is absurdly early because … Continue reading Why do Chicago Park District programs have registration for summer so early?
Internet security is rapidly becoming essential knowledge. Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt recently spoke at Cambridge University about his view of our future as tied to technology. Among predictions about cyberterrorism and ransoming of online identities he emphasized the need to teach kids Internet security early in life. He predicts that in the future our … Continue reading Teach kids Internet security before the sex talk says Google Chairman Eric Schmidt
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