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Study: More Teens Killed Texting While Driving than by Drunk Driving
Chilling new research suggests that texting while driving has become the number one cause of death amongst teenagers behind the wheel, surpassing drunk driving for the first time.
How to Block Porn on Your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch
We’ll walk you through where your youngster might be able to find inappropriate content on an Apple iOS device, as well as the tools Apple provides to keep them out of it.
The Family Tablet: How New Devices Foster Communal Computing
If you’ve read many of my columns here, you know that I am a fan of the tablet form factor. I believe tablets to be some of the more important technology products of our age. Most of this belief is rooted in the concept of touch …
5 Dependable iPhone and iPad Apps That Filter Content for Kids
“What is that?” I heard my 7-year-old shriek from his room. I ran in to find him and my younger son watching a video of a woman giving birth. It was shocking to them — and especially shocking to me because I thought we had all …
Lights, Camera, Learn: SchoolTube Strives to Be YouTube for K-12 Education
Can sharing facts you learn in class be as fun as sharing the latest “Call Me Maybe” parody on YouTube?
That’s what SchoolTube says. The free website claims to be “the nation’s largest teacher-moderated K-12 video-sharing …
Toys ‘R’ Us Offers Children a Cheap Tablet with Weak Specs
A tablet designed for young children, like the one Toys “R” Us just announced, seems like a good idea in theory. Instead of giving up your precious iPad, Nexus 7 or Kindle Fire, why not give kids a tablet of their own, pre-loaded …
Top 25 iPad Apps for Kids
The best in gaming, books, art, music and education, all at their fingertips
The 10 Best Android Games for Kids
At Tecca, we love finding the best games and apps for your gadgets. You’ve probably seen our picks for iPad and iPhone, as well as the best games to play on consoles like Xbox and Wii. To complete the lineup, here are our picks …
Four Great Baby Apps for iPhone (That Saved This New Parent’s Life)
Two weeks: That’s how old my newborn child is — a baby boy, our first — as of Monday this week. Everything’s upside-down right now: sleep, eating, walking, writing, thinking, the fabric of space-time, you name it. His mother …
Mom Hacks Into School Computer System, Changes Her Kids’ Grades
Talk about helicopter parenting. It’s one thing to do your children’s homework for them. But when you decide to take matters into your own hands and change their grades yourself, well, that’s when law enforcement gets involved.
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When Should You Give Your Teenager Their First Cell Phone?
At this point in our shared history, cell phones have become indispensable. Not only have they become the go-to way to keep in touch with each other, today’s smartphones are robust enough to use in a business context. They’re …