While we all remember summers off with a golden nostalgia, the truth is that they were probably bad for us in terms of learning retention. The “summer slide,” known as “summer learning loss,” is related to the fairly simple problem that if you don’t keep using a skill, eventually that skill will atrophy. So how do parents prevent the slide, while also limiting the use of screens?
Technology is an ever-increasing part of our lives. Smartphones, laptops, e-readers, gaming devices, car consoles, and a host of other screens and gadgets are filling our lives and sometimes pushing us in unique directions. But for kids especially, balancing technology and other activities can be tough. Here’s how to help children stay on an even technological keel.
Whenever kids and adults share the same environment on the internet, problems will pop up. They can be as simple as adults using profane language in chat, not understanding that they’re interacting with a child, or as complex as kids stumbling over content built by users that wasn’t intended for children’s eyes. Roblox, the kid-oriented game-building platform, is no exception.
Doing ridiculous things for attention is hardly a new phenomenon. Ask your parents and grandparents if they ever ate goldfish, stuffed a phone booth, or ran through a public event without clothing on and see what they say.
Fortnite is a popular “battle royale” shooter where a group of players are dropped into a colorful fantasy world to try and knock each other out of the map. It’s grown shockingly fast since it was first introduced, and like any other form of entertainment, there’s a thin line between enjoying something and becoming obsessed with it. So how do parents keep a popular game from eating up all their family’s time?
