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Putting your kids on a “media diet”

By Emily On April 24, 2014 · Add Comment

There’s a lot of buzz about screen time, with more and more research emerging that the time your children spend with technology isn’t quite as important as the quality of the technology they’re using. The American Academy of Pediatrics has a very clear and well-written recommendation for guidelines to follow when parents are struggling with how to approach children’s media usage. An underlying theme of the research from a variety of sources is that television isn’t as high in quality as, say, an educational app. Books, newspapers, and kid-centric magazines are even better than using mobile gaming devices, but I would wager that your household owns more electronic devices than issues of Highlights. Finding the right app for your little one isn’t easy, but if you’re trying to make the transition away from TV time to more engaging and interactive apps, it can be really hard to decide [...]

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Jake’s Never Land Shapes And Patterns App Review – Shape Up And Ship Out

By Emily On October 29, 2013 · Add Comment

Shape recognition is an integral part of building an early learning math skill foundation.Yesterday my 5-year-old and I were having a contest to see how many shapes we could make by arranging our fingers together. Diamonds, squares, and circles were easy – it was the hexagon and isosceles triangle that proved to be tricky. Luckily for us – and other families that have been confronted with the menace of complicated finger shapes – there’s Jake’s Never Land Shapes and Patterns. Now fingers are used for tapping and swapping, eliminating the need to contort digits into impossibly geometric configurations. I write this all tongue-in-cheek, but this particular app goes back to my original statement about shape recognition and its importance in building early math skills. Using popular animated characters from a Disney franchise, Shapes and Patterns offer young players three different minigames to keep little ones [...]

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