damircudic/E+/Getty Images Let’s face it: No one memorizes phone numbers like they used to back in the day. With the universal prevalence of smartphones and the near-extinction of landlines, kids never have to dial home. While the 1980s home phone numbers of our youth are burned into our brain forever, today’s kids have no reason...
Category: elementary years
How My Son's Concerns About Climate Change Inspired Me
Oliver Rossi/DigitalVision/Getty Images A couple years ago, as most authors do at some point in their career, I was struggling with what to write next. I had a few half-baked ideas that weren’t quite going anywhere and personally, I was going through a mini mid-life crisis. I have four kids and was in the thick...
How To Explain It’s A Drop-Off Birthday Party Without Being Rude
FG Trade Latin/E+/Getty Images Every year for years it rained on the day of my kid’s birthday party. They’re born in late May, so we were put in the awkward position of turning an outdoor party into an indoor one. Our house is a decent size: we could always accommodate the number of guests invited…...
Google AI Can Now Guess The Age Of Kids To Police Content Access
Bloomberg/Bloomberg/Getty Images Google announced it will start using artificial intelligence to determine whether users are age-appropriate for its products. The tech giant shared the new technique for determining users’ ages in a blog, focused on “New digital protections for kids, teens and parents.” The automation will be used across Google products, including YouTube, a spokesperson...



