by PediaBlog | Mar 4, 2019 | Uncategorized
Perhaps you have heard of the “Momo Challenge” — the “creepy and dangerous game sweeping through social media platforms” that attracts child predators, erases boundaries of online privacy, and encourages acts of self-harm, and, in...
by PediaBlog | Feb 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
A little more than two years ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated their recommendations on the optimum quantity and quality of screen time for children. Among the new guidelines in the AAP’s policy statement entitled “Media and Young...
by PediaBlog | Dec 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
Before spending good money on the newest, brightest, loudest, fanciest toy for that awesome child in your life, the American Academy of Pediatrics has some advice in a clinical report on “selecting appropriate toys for young children in the digital...
by PediaBlog | Oct 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
After the last mass shooting in this country — no wait, maybe it was the one before that, or the one before that… — we leaned on Meghan Moreno, M.D. to guide us with her wisdom in a timely piece in JAMA Pediatrics entitled “How to Talk...
by PediaBlog | Sep 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
It should be no surprise when teenagers and parents don’t see eye-to-eye when it comes to the use of technology for playing, learning, and living. Scheduled program options on radio and television have taken a backseat to online entertainment, with its...
