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Your Kid’s Mobile Activity May Be Causing Eye Fatigue - Do you notice your child constantly rubbing his eyes after using his phone? He may be suffering from dry, tired eyes. Read full article >
Illuminating the Need For Good Light to Study Right - School is back in session. Which means, studying and reading will occupy most of your child's time and it is critical that they do it under the right light. Read full article >
Screens And Our Eyes - We know that using our devices too much will lead to eyesight deterioration, but the effects are much more detrimental than that. Health consequences such as heart disease, cancer, mental illness and a condition known as Digital Eye Strain (DES) may develop. Read full article >
Disconnect to Connect: How to Know if You’re Addicted to Your Smartphone - People stay online for an average of 24 hours a week. Of course, this is not entirely our fault, our devices are designed to be addictive. Read full article >
What is LASIK, and how does it work? - LASIK is an abbreviation for Laser-Assisted in Situ Keratomileusis. The surgical procedure aims to provide precise vision correction with quick healing time. Read full article >
Quirky Inventions for the Digital-Age Zombies - Zombies are amongst us. And they are tech-savvy (or rather, tech-addicted). Read full article >
Contact Lenses For Kids: A Go or No-Go? - There will come a time where you kids will ask if they can get contact lenses. Read full article >
Myopia Vs. Astigmatism: Know the Difference - Myopia (commonly known as short-sightedness) and astigmatism are refractive errors that cause blurred vision and, albeit the similarity, they are two different conditions. Read full article >
‘E-Discipline’ May Be Feeding Your Child’s Screen Addiction - As our world gets digitalised, it is unsurprising that the way we discipline children has also taken on a digital form. It is however perhaps time to realise what this might inadvertently do to your child, especially when it comes to the arduous battle against their screen addictions. What exactly is e-discipline? What do you… Read full article >
Try Not To Tip The Scale When You Monitor Your Kids’ Activity - The ongoing controversy over keeping an eye on your child’s online activity. Teenagers are not strangers to controversy; from the recent spurning fast fashion to steering clear of meat in response to climate change. Controversy sparks change. Likewise, debates have always surrounded the idea and the meaning of ‘privacy’. Children and teenagers despise parental control… Read full article >
Your Kid’s Smartphone Addiction May Lead To This Damaging Health Problem - As more of our kids begin to own smartphones, they may fall prey to smartphone addiction and this can harm their health in ways that we may not always see. Read full article >
Putting The Control In Parental Control Apps: Is Control Always Bad? - This may be an unpopular opinion, but control is good. When it comes to our child's smartphone use, control is often necessary. Read full article >
Are iPhone Monitoring Apps Your New Digital Parenting Best Friend? - Your kids have gone digital, you've gone digital, your parenting friend has also gone digital. Enter your next best parenting friend - the prime iPhone monitoring apps! Read full article >
You May Be Feeding Your Kid’s Smartphone Addiction - Our children are the biggest copycats. As such, it is only natural that they pick up our bad habits along with the good ones – like our smartphone addiction. Read full article >
Is The Block Apps Feature More Of A Bane Than Boon? - It all boils down to whether children view app blockers as a measure of safety or surveillance. Read full article >
The Tech-Effective Parenting Tool: Parent Apps - The buzz around being 'tech-savvy' and keeping up with our digitally-wired little ones is THE parenting trend. So how can we parents go about it? Parent apps. Read full article >
France is banning mobile phones in schools - On Sunday, France’s education minister announced that mobile phones will be banned from primary, junior, and middle schools, calling it a matter of “public health Read full article >
All Android apps to have 64-bit support by August 2019, improved performance will be the result - There aren’t many weeks go by between announcements from Google regarding security Read full article >
Silicon Valley Reconsiders the iPhone Era It Created - A tussle this week between prominent investors and Apple Inc. Read full article >
Two Major Apple Shareholders Push for Study of iPhone Addiction in Children - Two big shareholders of Apple Inc. are concerned that the entrancing qualities of the iPhone have fostered a public health crisis that could hurt children — and the company as well. Read full article >
The behind-the-scenes story of why Apple received a letter from 2 huge investors about child safety features - Last week, Apple was the target of an interesting PR situation in which everyone involved walked away winners. Read full article >
Apple CEO Tim Cook blames social media and technology ‘overuse’ after iPhone addiction criticisms - Speaking in the U.K. today about Apple’s Everyone Can Code curriculum, CEO Tim Cook briefly addressed the topic of iPhone addiction, Read full article >
Children Using Mobile Devices: Can It Cause Eye Problems?​ - With young children increasingly playing for hours on end with mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, this might grow to be a problem for them as well. Read full article >
Education technology is a global opportunity - $8.15 billion. That’s the amount global investors staked in edtech companies in the first 10 months of 2017. Read full article >
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