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There’s a version of screen time that looks a lot like staring into a blank void. Looks like a kid on the couch, game running, not much happening from the outside, and there’s a version that looks completely different, where…
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Something worth paying attention to. When kids are playing in worlds that are actually designed for them, they aren’t just playing. They’re practicing social skills, and they’re better at it than most of us give them credit for. We always…
The hour limit thing never really made sense to me, and I think most parents feel that way even if they don’t say it out loud, because you can have a kid on a screen for twenty minutes who is…
When a kid spends an hour designing their island in a game it’s pretty easy to file that under “just playing” and move on, and honestly from the outside it doesn’t look like much. But what’s actually happening during that…
A kid who’s had a rough day doesn’t usually walk up and explain what’s wrong, they process it sideways, through play, through building something, through a game where they get to decide what happens next for once. That’s not avoidance,…
I’ve seen kids lose the same minigame eleven times in a row once and still keep going back . Getting that same kid to redo a homework problem they got wrong without a whole negotiation, well… the difference, as far…
Teamwork is one of those things that gets talked about a lot in schools and sports and basically everywhere kids spend time, but the actual practice of it is harder to manufacture than people give it credit for. You can’t…
“Just go make some friends” has never once worked on a shy kid. You probably know this already. You’ve watched your kid hang back at the birthday party, or circle the edge of the playground for fifteen minutes before committing…
Confidence is one of those everyone wants their kid to have, but something that you just can’t force. You can tell them they’re great all day, but what actually moves the needle is a kid making something, putting it in…
Two kids, same amount of time on a screen. One is watching a video feed that keeps auto-playing before they’ve finished the last thing. The other is building something, making decisions, hitting a problem, trying again. From across the room…
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