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Microsoft and its crack ad team have come up with a really bad commercial that touches on the increase in attention deficit disorder and what parents can do to “entertain their children.” I am fairly certain that for most parents (especially parents enrolled at Better Parenting University), entertaining your child with a pretty woman dancing […]

In yesterday’s post, we blogged about an online game with potentially very negative consequences for young girls - today, we look at a game that is as definite step in the right direction - literally. From the recent edition of Springwise:
LocoMatrix, which is still in beta, has developed location-based games kids can play outdoors using […]

Parents beware - there is a site that is increasing in popularity that is encouraging girls as young as 9 to embrace plastic surgery and extreme dieting in the search for the perfect figure. The game already has over 200.000 registered members in the U.S, and 1.2 million subscribers on a French version of the […]

According to an article appearing on the Telegraph.co.uk:
The demise of the traditional family is breeding a generation of children who are increasingly relying on teachers to become surrogate parents, a prominent education leader warned yesterday.
Thousands of children lacked basic social skills, said John Dunford, the general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders.
Many […]