Age Group Archive

  • You’re playing a lot of mobile games on the subway, aren’t you?

    You’re playing a lot of mobile games on the subway, aren’t you?

    Posted on May 19, 2010 | No Comments
    You're on the subway on the way to work. It's not a long trip, maybe 15 to 20 minutes long if you're coming in from an outer borough. You have to kill the time somehow lest you be alone in your thoughts for a few moments. What do you do? If we're to believe a new survey, then you' may well whip out your phone to play a video game. Back in the day, people would have had a paperback or magazine handy. Times, they are a....

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  • Throw away those Baby Einstein DVDs

    Throw away those Baby Einstein DVDs

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Bam. If you've ever had to sit through a modern educational kids movie, you've realized they're garbage. Junk like Diego and Baby Einstein are useless educationally and, in comparison to Looney Tunes and the like, absolute pablum. Now parents won't feel guilty because little Mason and Kirsten aren't learning how to say "monito" through video watching. It is written that 12- to 24-month olds get no language-learning benefits from garbage educational videos.

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  • E-E-book readers for kids. The first “E” stands for educational.

    E-E-book readers for kids. The first “E” stands for educational.

    Posted on February 18, 2010 | No Comments
    With all the flaws that e-book readers have, they don’t seem to be going away anytime soon. VTech, makers of fine educational electronics, are rolling out the Flip animated e-book reader, so now, your kids can get in on the action too. I always loved to read as a kid, so on family trips I’d bring [...]

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  • Shock study: Kids spend a lot of time online, using their phones

    Shock study: Kids spend a lot of time online, using their phones

    Posted on January 20, 2010 | No Comments
    It was only five years ago that kids between the ages of 8 and 18 "only" spent 6.5 hours online. Today, these same kids (well, the same age group) now spend some 7.5 hours online per day between the computer and their mobile. That may not sound like a much until you ask: where did these kids find an entire extra hour to mess around online? It's even crazier when you consider that many of these hours are spent multi-tasking—watching YouTube while listening to iTunes, for example. If you think of it like that, then you can say that kids today are cramming 11 hours of media consumption per day into that 7.5-hour window. Remember: it was only a few years ago that these same kids would have been working in the textile factories of Manchester, so let's not feel too bad for them.

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  • Stupid teens still text and drive because they’re stupid

    Stupid teens still text and drive because they’re stupid

    Posted on December 11, 2009 | No Comments
    Despite the fact that you'd have to be a stupid idiot to still text and drive, plenty of teens in the U.S. still text and drive. “By the time [the police] pull you over, the chances are you are going to be done with your text anyway so they can't exactly prove that you were texting.” Good thinking there, sport.

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