Home-schooling your kids due to coronavirus? Here is some advice and resources that may helpIt’s Wednesday afternoon on the 18th of March as I write this, and here in the UK it’s just been announced that all schools in Scotland…Stuart Dredge·Added Mar 18, 2020·7 min readStuart Dredge·Added Mar 18, 2020·7 min read
TeArcade Coder kit wants to get kids making gamesGames consoles are fun. Board games are fun. So what could be more fun than a ‘programmable game console and board game’ aimed at families…Stuart Dredge·Added Sep 2, 2019·4 min readStuart Dredge·Added Sep 2, 2019·4 min read
Fabled helps kids write stories — and now it’s collecting them in a bookParents spend a lot of time thinking about how we can encourage our kids to read more stories, but what about writing them? British…Stuart Dredge·Added Jul 9, 2019·3 min readStuart Dredge·Added Jul 9, 2019·3 min read
Nadiya Hussain talks anxiety, children, diversity… and why she might run for Prime MinisterThe UK’s next Prime Minister is going to be Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt. Given that fact, you’ll forgive me for drifting off into a happy…Stuart Dredge·Added Jul 3, 2019·6 min readStuart Dredge·Added Jul 3, 2019·6 min read
Climate activist Noga Levy-Rapoport challenges children’s media industry“It is time for the media to begin treating this emergency with the severity it deserves… Where are you in this movement? What have you…Stuart Dredge·Added Jul 3, 2019·2 min readStuart Dredge·Added Jul 3, 2019·2 min read
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is live — but will it spell joy for children?It feels like a long time since the announcement of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, an official game set in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world…Stuart Dredge·Added Jun 24, 2019·6 min readStuart Dredge·Added Jun 24, 2019·6 min read
The fiendish parental loop of banning, then un-banning gaming and screensIt’s half-term here in the UK, and parents up and down the land are already hitting PEAK exasperation point with the screen-time battles…Stuart Dredge·Added Feb 19, 2019·3 min readStuart Dredge·Added Feb 19, 2019·3 min read
UK’s chief medical officers offer new advice on children’s screen-timeParents looking for authoritative advice on how to manage their children’s use of technology have a new source today: a document published…Stuart Dredge·Added Feb 7, 2019·3 min readStuart Dredge·Added Feb 7, 2019·3 min read
Dance-music star Marshmello played a concert in Fortnite… to 10m peopleIn 1993, Rod Stewart played a free concert in Rio de Janeiro, attracting 3.5 million fans – a record equalled four years later by a Jean…Stuart Dredge·Added Feb 4, 2019·2 min readStuart Dredge·Added Feb 4, 2019·2 min read
Whisper it quietly, but are kids finally getting tired of YouTube?Not in my house, judging by the amount of Rocket League highlights videos my nine year-old gets through in the average weekend. But a new…Stuart Dredge·Added Feb 4, 2019·2 min readStuart Dredge·Added Feb 4, 2019·2 min read
