Surprise! Latest Pew Study Finds a Gender Divide in Digital Kids
Give a stick to a boy and he’ll fashion a gun. Give the same stick to a girl and she’s likely to fashion a magic wand. Hardwired genetic differences or culturally influenced? The best minds tell us that it’s probably a combination of [...]

Here’s a column that I wrote a few years ago. In light of the new Pew Internet Life study that shows the differences between boys and girls in terms of use of social media, I thought I’d look back at how we’ve mentored and helped girls while we’ve let boys flounder. I [...]

Are cheaply made toys more dangerous than expensive ones? As much as I’d like to say no, the answer is probably yes. After all, we don’t manufacture toys in China because we think they do a better job of creating safe toys. They do a better job of making them inexpensively. Producing cheap [...]

Don’t we all wish that Internet safety was as easy as saying “because I said so, that’s why!”?
Somewhere around age 3 kids learn the “W” (Why) word as a rebuttal, and once they do, there’s no going back. And as they get older they’re more likely to follow the advice dispensed behind [...]