Keeping your kid’s mind sharp might involve making sure they don’t spend all day on their smartphone or other screen devices, suggests yet more research published this week. Canadian researchers looked at the first bits of data from a ...
90% of children between the ages of 4 and 12 in Asia Pacific have claimed they are using platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. The findings, from a survey by digital media company TotallyAwesome, reveal the social media ...
Parents need to drag themselves away from their smartphones and tablets and ensure that their young children are ready to learn at school, according to the education secretary. Damian Hinds said that, while a lot of attention had been ...
A shopping centre in northwest China has built a special lane for pedestrians to walk on while gazing at their mobile phones, according to a newspaper report. The lane has been set up in a commercial district in Xian in Shaanxi ...
A blight of bad eyesight plagues urban centers in China and other East Asian countries. In Hong Kong and Singapore, the rate of myopia, or nearsightedness, is as high as 90 percent in young adults. Though things aren’t as blurry ...
China will soon roll out a new scheme to curb the rise in nearsightedness – or myopia – among children and teenagers for the sake of their health and the nation’s future. Authorities have sought public opinions on the ...
Chinese authorities have announced plans to control video gaming as a response to rising levels of near-sightedness among children. Regulators want to limit the number of new online games, restrict playing time and develop an ...
You may want to stretch your fingers after reading this story. A woman in China recently learned a painful lesson when she suffered severe hand cramps after a week-long binge on her mobile phone. After taking a week’s break from ...
Children are confounding their parents by finding ingenious away around Apple’s screen time controls. The British press picked up on an r/apple Reddit discussion, which features bemused parents sharing stories about how their ...
A shocked mum has reached out for help after discovering her daughter had Googled ‘naked people’, ‘naked people kissing’ and ‘real life naked people.’ She wrote on the Stay at Home Mum (SAHM) ...
