By KENDRA MARR
Champion athletes have been frequent visitors to the White House.
President Barack Obama shot hoops with the University of Connecticut women’s basketball champions, ate Gulf Coast shrimp with the Super Bowl-winning New Orleans Saints and ribbed the New York Yankees for the time it took them to win another World Series.
But on Monday, Obama welcomed a new kind of champion to the executive mansion: school kids who have won math and science competitions.
By Jacquie Ream
Between the proliferation of cyberbullying that has been dominating the headlines and the inappropriate communications that cell phones enable between teens, she believes it’s time for parents to set up new rules for their teens regarding the technology that has become an intractable part of their lives.
“The common joke with teens is that they’re all developing oversized thumbs from all the texting they do on their cell phones,” said Ream, a former educator and author of YNK — You Never Know (www.reamink.com), a book about the pitfalls of technology aimed at today’s teens. “The truth is that technology has moved faster than parents’ ability to keep up with it. Only five years ago, it was not terribly common for teens to have their own cell phones. Today, most kids use them, and the only rules they get from their parents concern not texting over their cell plan’s limits. Kids need more. Parents need to be able to explain to them the complexities of how this technology can affect their lives, and how to prevent the negative phenomenon of cyberbullying and more.”
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Not only a Child Thermometer for measuring water temperature, but also a lovely blue bear toy for your baby to play when he/she wants to have a bath;
The range of the Bath Thermometer measurement: 34~44°C (93.2-111.2°F)
The KLEXL is a concept Interactive Painting machine from designer Dario Jandrijic. It tricks your kids into thinking that they are scrawling their childish rubbish onto your pristine walls, and cleanup is as easy as flicking an off-switch.
I was never allowed to draw on the walls as a kid, which was never a problem as my dad always seemed to liberate enough office stationery to keep me occupied. A friend of mine had more liberal parents, though, and his bedroom ended up painted black and with the legend “Alien Sex Fiend” on one wall. Try covering that up when you move out.
by Leticia Barr
The internet is a treasure trove of learning opportunities that are designed for young ages to practice developing skills but it also poses real risks for our children from the minute they visit their first website.
As parents, we always want the best for our children and while there are some wonderful sites that are truly educational in nature, others are poorly designed, lack age appropriate content, or have the ability to fill your computer with viruses with a single click. Here are a few simple things to keep in mind to ensure that your child has a successful internet experience.
iPad launches a new app especially for the kids to learn letters and alphabet in easy way with lots of fun. Little sky writers app released by DAN02. This app is the ideal for kindergarten teachers and professional. In this app through sky writing airplane, teaches kids how to trace letters of lowercase and uppercase.
From side by side of the alphabet a comical voice follows you. That suggests words start with present that letter you are tracing and sounding out every alphabet. By putting your finger on it, the plane is moved around the letter and follows the white line way that already lay out.
Technology infuses top toys for holidays but prices remain below $100
By MAE ANDERSON
This year’s hot holiday toys are high-tech — and low-price.
From tiny remote-control cars from Mattel to nearly paper-thin electronic guitars and drums from WowWee Toys called Paper Jamz, technology is infused in many of this year’s projected hot toys. But that doesn’t mean the return of $100 price tag, which seems to have been for the most part banished since the recession.
Many techie toys are wallet-friendly at under $30.
Jim Silver, an analyst at Time to Play Magazine, which offers an influential list of hot toys each year, says toy prices overall have come down, but technology has gotten better. The highest-priced toy on the list is $59.99.
Toshiba and Best Buy have partnered to come up with a kid friendly notebook, the new Toshiba Satellite L635. Specifically designed for those little menaces that are capable to tore apart your sleek and powerful laptop, the new Satellite L635 has a wipeable keyboard that keeps things clean and a software and entertainment package that promises to keep them quiet.
Toshiba Satellite L635 Kids Notebook
Toshiba Satellite L635 is a full-size laptop made for children aged 5 to 10. It features a 13.3-inch HD display (that’s more than enough for cartoons), an integrated DVD drive and a webcam.
By Shane McGlaun
A company from the UK called Protect your Bubble commissioned a survey about kids and technology that looked at kids from 3 to 10 years old to see what they could do in relation to tech. According to the survey results, many of the kids were more proficient with tech than they were with reading and writing. I can certainly see this as accurate in many cases. My son was using a computer alone by three to play a game called Reader Rabbit.
In a world where there are hundreds – nay! – thousands of TV channels but only a few with content suitable for young eyes, you must either teach your toddler to punch in only a certain set of memorized numbers (and never mess up for fear of landing on Daddy’s special channel), or you need to be the Guardian of the Remote, meting out edutainment destiny with your meaty parental digits. What’s that you say? You want an easier solution? Okay, okay, then check out the iMote. It’s a remote, it’s a toy, it’s SMART, it’s remotely edible. (Ha. Did you get that? Remotely edible. We slay ourselves, we do.)
The iMote is a programmable TV remote just for preschoolers. You select and program the remote with five of your child’s favorite TV channels and the remote does the rest.