The team at Playground Equipment created a valuable and fun infographic that helps teachers and parents think of ways to incorporate play into everyday activities. Play stimulates growth and development in children and helps them explore, solve problems, and develop their motor skills. The graphic helps adults learn how to involve more play during the day through low-effort games, activities, and objects.
Child abuse is entirely too common in the United States, with 558,899 in 2022 alone. These terrible statistics can lead to lifelong consequences and even fatalities. The team at Joslyn Law Firm brings awareness to this serious issue with their infographics displaying the states where child abuse rates are highest.
Overall, the team found that Massachusetts has the highest child abuse rates, with 16.5 children abused per 100,000. This state was followed by West Virginia, Iowa, and Maine, which had similar statistics, around 15 for every 100,000 children.
Meta has announced new parental controls for Instagram and
Messenger that will provide parents with more insights into how their children and
teenagers socially engage and spend time on the apps.
The parental control update on Messenger will let parents
know exactly the time duration a child is spending on Messenger. From the Meta
Family Center, parents will also be able to take a look at their child’s
Messenger contacts list, along with monitoring their privacy and safety
settings. Moreover, if a child reports someone on the app, parents will be
informed of it, as well as be able to see who can and can’t message their child.
Snapchat’s new Family Centre is providing parents with monitoring tools to supervise their children’s activities on the app, without
eavesdropping their private conversations, and understand the ways in which kids
and teens are engaging across the social platform.
Speaking about the update, Snapchat announced, “In the
coming weeks, we will add a new feature that will allow parents to easily view
new friends their teens have added.”
The social company further assures parents that they will be able to report any accounts that they find concerning in relation to Snap’s Trust and Safety teams, without informing their child about them, so as to keep any potential unwanted attention away from their children.
Meta has taken a new initiative towards the safety of
younger audience with regard to unsafe, intimate activities that teen users could
be engaging in over social media. The company has released a guide on how parents
could have discussions about these practices with their teen children and offer
them their advice.
One of the key elements of discussion that Meta has focused on is telling teens that sending or receiving intimate images isn’t something that everyone does, which suggests being cautious when receiving inappropriate images.
Since the pandemic began in 2020, many things about our lives have changed. Now that the scares from COVID seem to be mostly behind us, some changes have stuck with us. Some of these have been for the better, however some have not.
Paid parental leave varies greatly around the world. While some countries allow more than a year off to care for a new child, other countries offer little to no paid leave.
A child needs equal time from both of its parents but, some working parents are unable to spend as much time with their kids as they should. If we talk about fathers specifically, despite all the love and spoiling, they, unfortunately, spend lesser time with their kids.
As the infographic shows, US fathers get no parental leave at all. The country was among the ones that lack paid maternity leave for new moms but, fathers are also kept from getting a day off from their work to spend some quality time with their kids at home.
In various developed countries, new fathers are seen to take leave for weeks or even leave the job in order to give all of their time to their just-born child. Japan seems to be a pretty considerate country in terms of parental leave since new fathers there are allowed 30 weeks of leave that too, paid.
To help users fill their career gaps on their profiles,
LinkedIn has introduced a bunch of new job titles on its app. The platform has
also made changes to listings of freelance positions.
The new job titles have been especially introduced after receiving
feedback from women and mothers who have taken a break from their work and are
looking for more ways to address career gaps on their profile due to parenting
and other responsibilities.
“To make it easier for moms, and all parents, we’re making
some important changes to the Profile. We introduced new job titles, including
“stay-at-home mom,” “stay-at-home dad” and “stay-at-home parent” to allow
full-time parents and caretakers to more accurately display their roles,"
explained LinkedIn.
Having these new titles will answer concerns and questions around women’s career gaps. It will also give more credit to the work and responsibilities of parents, hence highlighting it as something positive in recruiter evaluation.
Every child's parents want the best birthday party for their kid. But the perfect party doesn't come easy at all. The most amazing party would also be costly. Budget should be the first thing on the mind of the parents. However, don't let budget hold you back. Even with a tight budget, there's so much that you can do for your kid's birthday.
Remember that planning for a kid's birthday should not be difficult. This is because kids can find almost anything entertaining. An easier way to approach kid's entertainment is to think like a child yourself. What did you love as a child? Perhaps it was colourful patterns or games where you could just fool around. Whatever it might have been, it would have been far from fancy. Not that fancy is something bad, it's just that it isn't absolutely necessary. You can plan a fun party while keeping it simple.
Working around the house can be so difficult for new moms. Not only are they going through a new experience, they also have to give attention to their baby. Whether the pregnancy is ongoing or the delivery has been done– it is true for both the cases!
It's the most unforgettable feeling in the world when your baby starts achieving milestones. With every milestone that your baby achieves, you'll notice a change in their needs. And with growth, your baby will ultimately move out from the breast milk phase into the ability to chew solid foods.
Handling a baby is easier said than done. Their tender age needs gentle care, and parents throughout the ages, all over the world, have employed various methods to take care of their tiny one. You may have come across pictures of women in rural areas carrying their kids by tying them to their fronts or their backs. So certainly, babywearing is not a product of our modern era.
Babywearing has been around for ages, but we can assume that it has been on the rise and has become more common in today's world. However, this has been only in recent years and not from the turn of the twenty-first century. Parents were keener on leaving their babies in strollers, but now more and more parents have been considering babywearing because it is good for both the child and the parents.
The modern era revolves around work, work and more work. Technology has helped us out in many ways, but it has also increased the number of working hours. Not only are people working during their office timings, but they are also found working at home when they should be enjoying their 'me' time and 'family' time.
To add to the contemporary work lifestyle, the rise of both compulsory expenses, as well as luxuries, makes it essential for both the parents to work for the betterment of their children. Even if one parent is capable enough to earn for the family to run, both the mother and father have their personal goals which they need to achieve. But ambitions can come with a cost. And that cost can be letting go of family life.
Social media has a dramatic influence on many young people and poses unique challenges for parents and this is especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago recently polled nearly 3,000 current or recent parents of teenagers to better understand their most pressing concerns and challenges with social media, as well as trends in behavior exhibited by their children. The goal was also to cover both the positive and negative aspects of social media which can vary depending on how the technology is used. Overall, the study found that parents are concerns that social media has a negative impact on their children’s lives with 58% of surveyed parents reporting that social media has a negative impact on their children’s lives. Let’s take a deeper dive into the survey results.
How does social media affect your teen?
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago split social media use into two very specific categories. The first category looked at the things that social media use takes away from our children and the different things that social media exposes children too.
Listed below are the top concerns parents have with their teen’s social media use:
1. Not sleeping enough (58%)
2. Not enough physical activity (57%)
3. Not enough focus on schoolwork (52%)
4. An unhealthy need for approval or attention (51%)
5. Not enough face-to-face interaction (49%)
6. Becoming sexualized too soon (45%)
7. Not enough personal privacy; oversharing their lives (44%)
8. Potential exposure to sexual predators (41%)
9. Exposed to hate speech (41%)
10. Inhibits the ability to focus (37%)
11. Being bullied (35%)
12. Inhibits healthy brain development (29%)
13. Bullying others (18%)
14. None of the above (5%)
Due to the prolonged lockdown situation all over the world, screen time has also increased. Be it for personal reasons or for work, avoiding the screen has definitely gotten beyond the control of many. Basically, this comes as a result of the pandemic confining us to our homes, leaving us with no other option to see our loved ones other than via video call or other methods involving screen-time.
It's not just the adults for whom screen-time has increased more than ever, but children as well. Even before COVID-19, since we are living in the age of technological advancements, we know how children are choosing online games and entertainment over playing outside. While that is certainly not a bad activity, the spike has gone very high from 2020 till 2020, with a 500% increase online each day. In some cases, children don't have. choice. For instance, educational institutes began taking online classes and homework assignments online, which makes a lot of the screen time unavoidable.
After launching the Kids Tab in Google Play, Google is now introducing Google Kids Space for select android tablets. The purpose of Kids Space is to provide apps, books, and videos that children can explore for both fun and learning.
When Google developed Family Link to help parents manage their children's online experiences, the feedback from parents suggested that they were looking for more than just parental controls and wanted more enriching and engaging content for their kids. To fulfill the request, Google launched Kids Tab to help parents find all the 'teacher approved' apps for their kids. Now with Kids Space, Google aims to extend the kids mode on its platform.
Google is launching the feature for certain Lenovo tabs initially and plans to make it available for other Android tablets in the near future.
If you're here, then you're either waiting for your newborn baby to arrive or you have already got them in your arms. So congratulations! Getting to see a tiny version of you can be very exciting. But in the midst of all the excitement, a bit of planning needs to be done to assure your baby gets the attention and care they deserve.
Let's first get started with a list of essential items for your baby. Keeping aside toys and other luxuries, food and clothes should be your topmost priority. Make sure to keep the season in mind while buying clothes for your newborn, as newborn babies are extremely sensitive.
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