https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2026-04-27T08:50:43+00:00 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1120272 jm germs infection immunity immune-system children parenting childcare kindergarten kids diseases sickness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1194bc48aa25/ 2025-06-16T08:20:43+00:00 https://archive.ph/2025.06.16-055422/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/revealed-the-stark-difference-in-smartphone-usage-among-eight-year-olds-in-less-advantaged-and-wealthier-backgrounds/a319792577.html#selection-4431.0-4455.166 jmAccording to the research, 53pc of eight-year-olds attending Deis schools [in less-advantaged areas] own a smartphone, compared with just 22pc of children the same age in non-­Deis schools. The figures also show that 93pc of eight-year-olds from less advantaged areas have created a social media account, compared with 69pc in middle-­class neighbourhoods. ]]> schools education class ireland phones children parenting social-media https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e75ddec353f2/ 2025-05-13T08:36:24+00:00 https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2025/04/30/kids-should-avoid-ai-companion-bots-under-force-of-law-assessment-says jmThe new Common Sense assessment adds to the debate by pointing to further harms from companion bots. Conducted with input from Stanford’s University School of Medicine’s Brainstorm Lab for Mental Health Innovation, it evaluated social bots from Nomi and three California-based firms: Character.ai, Replika, and Snapchat. The assessment found that bots, apparently seeking to mimic what users want to hear, responded to racist jokes with adoration, supported adults having sex with young boys, and engaged in sexual roleplay with people of any age. Young kids can struggle with distinguishing fantasy and reality, and teens are vulnerable to parasocial attachment and may use social AI companions to avoid the challenges of building real relationships, according to the Common Sense assessment authors and doctors. Stanford University’s Dr. Darja Djordjevic told CalMatters she was surprised how quickly conversations turned sexually explicit, and that one bot was willing to engage in sexual roleplay involving an adult and a minor. She and coauthors of the risk assessment believe companion bots can worsen clinical depression, anxiety disorders, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and psychosis, she said, because they are willing to encourage risky, compulsive behavior like running away from home and isolate people by encouraging them to turn away from real life relationships. ]]> psychology children ai llms character.ai replika snapchat companion-bots bots common-sense-media mental-health https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1732922c88c5/ 2025-04-24T08:15:58+00:00 https://theappendix.net/posts/2014/02/darwins-children-drew-vegetable-battles-on-the-origin-of-species jm evolution biology children history charles-darwin kids drawings https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d0d5be0f393b/ 2024-07-25T11:15:17+00:00 https://gidmk.substack.com/p/the-cass-review-into-gender-identity-c27 jm In some cases [...] the review contains statements that are false regardless of what your position on healthcare for transgender children is. Take the “exponential” rise in transgender children that the review spends so much time on. It’s true that there has been a dramatic rise in the number of children with gender dysphoria. The rise mostly occurred between 2011-2015, and has plateaued since. These are facts. One theory that may explain the facts is that this is caused by changing diagnostic criteria - when we changed the diagnosis from gender identity disorder to the much broader gender dysphoria, this included many more children. We’ve seen this exact trend happen with everything from autism to diabetes, and we know that broadening diagnostic criteria almost always results in more people with a condition. Another theory is that these changes were caused by the internet. [...] The Cass review treated these two theories unequally. The first possible explanation, which I would argue is by far the most likely, was ignored completely. The second possible explanation was given a lengthy and in-depth discussion. [...] The point is that the scientific findings of the Cass review are mostly about uncertainty. We are uncertain about the causes of a rise in trans kids, and uncertain about the best treatment modalities. But everything after that is opinion. The review did not even consider the question of whether normal puberty is a problem for transgender children, or whether psychotherapy can be harmful. That’s why these are now the only options in the UK - medical treatments were assumed to be harmful, while non-medical interventions (or even no treatment at all) were assumed harmless. [...] What we can say with some certainty is that the most impactful review of gender services for children was seriously, perhaps irredeemably, flawed. The document made numerous basic errors, cited conversion therapy in a positive way, and somehow concluded that the only intervention with no evidence whatsoever behind it was the best option for transgender children. ]]> transgender trans uk politics cass-report cass-review gideon-m-k healthcare children teenagers gender https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:45aca6f8a9d9/ 2024-06-11T13:32:14+00:00 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/ai-trained-on-photos-from-kids-entire-childhood-without-their-consent/ jmLAION began removing links to photos from the dataset while also advising that "children and their guardians were responsible for removing children’s personal photos from the Internet." That, LAION said, would be "the most effective protection against misuse." [Hye Jung Han] told Wired that she disagreed, arguing that previously, most of the people in these photos enjoyed "a measure of privacy" because their photos were mostly "not possible to find online through a reverse image search.” Likely the people posting never anticipated their rarely clicked family photos would one day, sometimes more than a decade later, become fuel for AI engines. And indeed, here we are, with our family photos ingested long ago into many, many models, mainly hosted in jurisdictions outside the GDPR, and with no practical way to avoid it. Is there a genuine way to opt out, at this stage? Even if we do it for LAION, what about all the other model scrapes that have gone into OpenAI, Apple, Google, et al? Ugh, what a mess. ]]> privacy data-protection kids children family laion web-scraping ai models photos https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:14b96bcdcbaf/ 2023-11-29T13:22:18+00:00 https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381 jm Use of air purifiers at two daycare centres in Helsinki led to a reduction in illnesses and absences among children and staff, according to preliminary findings of a new [year-long] study led by E3 Pandemic Response. "Children were clearly less sick in daycare centres where air purification devices were used — down by around 30 percent," Sanmark explained. On average, daycare centre-aged children suffer 10-13 infectious illnesses every year, with each illness lasting from one to three weeks, according to the research. Meanwhile, kids between the ages of 1-3 come down with flu-like symptoms between five to eight times a year — and children also often suffer stomach bugs, on top of that. Kids are particularly prone to catching colds after returning to daycare after their summer break. Those illnesses are often shared by the kids' parents and daycare staff, prompting absences from work. Sanmark said that employers face costs of around 370 euros for one day of an employee's sick leave. "It would be a big savings if we could get rid of 30 percent of sick days spread by children, as well as the illnesses that go home to parents," Sanmark said. (via Fergal)]]> air-quality air health medicine childcare children disease air-filtration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:be3f6c98bc83/ 2022-04-06T17:21:27+00:00 https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048984/battle-over-long-covid-children/?truid=8c8f2699f50eb3b9985a111121cfee47&mc_cid=a0755c17c5&mc_eid=eaf496ebe1 jmWe don't know how many children are affected, and we don’t know which symptoms came from infections and which might have resulted indirectly from the pandemic. Scientists can’t even agree over what it means for children to have long covid. ]]> long-covid children kids covid-19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6a7b346c3ccc/ 2021-12-07T14:47:21+00:00 https://twitter.com/WolfieChristl/status/1467927612626550786 jm refractive-surveillance surveillance children privacy data-privacy location gps life360 tile data-brokers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b6bb8b12bba3/ 2021-07-28T09:27:45+00:00 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2782164 jm covid-19 via:daniel-griffin via:twiv long-covid children kids jama zurich switzerland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9b3037b24f7d/ 2021-07-05T09:54:16+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1411795147243900928.html jmwhat does the ONS data tell us with their very large datasets? They looked at 313,000 people aged 2 or over, surveyed in the month to June 6. On July 1 the new data shows 962,000 people in private households in the UK (1.5% of the population) were experiencing self-reported "long COVID" (symptoms persisting for more than four weeks). https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/1july2021 856,000 (89.0%) first had (or suspected they had) COVID-19 at least 12 weeks previously, and 385,000 (40.0%) first had (or suspected they had) COVID-19 at least one year previously. They estimate that 13,000 children aged 2-11, 20,000 aged 12-16 and 71,000 aged 17-24 had Long Covid of any duration. Most in these 3 age groups had had symptoms for AT LEAST 12 weeks (10,000, 16000, 65000 respectively). Perhaps most worrying is that the latest UK Long Covid estimate for children aged 12-16 who experience prolonged symptoms for at least ONE YEAR is 0.12% (0.06-0.17) or 1 in 830, with possible but unknown effects on developing brain structure based on recent adult studies. Costello is a member of Independent SAGE and an ex-director of the WHO]]> sage anthony-costello long-covid covid-19 children kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:35521b405c30/ 2021-03-19T14:22:27+00:00 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349942602_COVID-19_children_and_schools_overlooked_and_at_risk_author_reply jm covid-19 schools kids children zoe-hyde transmission https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:812967b11a3c/ 2021-03-11T12:23:44+00:00 https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1369981734922637313 jm science covid-19 b.1.1.7 variants children schools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a82f087c77e9/ 2020-12-14T15:10:16+00:00 https://triage.webpoisoncontrol.org/#!/exclusions jm parenting kids children poison danger risk poisons poison-control triage https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1fb5eb7d83d6/ 2020-12-10T10:32:34+00:00 https://twitter.com/DrZoeHyde/status/1336612124835995648 jm schools covid-19 transmission kids children research twitter https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:87a59af08adb/ 2020-08-24T23:08:47+00:00 https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40037216.html jm sport-ireland ireland contact-tracing covid-19 kids hse children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:45fdd6bb4a7b/ 2020-08-24T22:50:53+00:00 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.18.20166835v1.full.pdf jm covid-19 sars-cov-2 papers preprints kids children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:778243efd3e1/ 2020-08-04T10:11:18+00:00 https://www.ajc.com/news/coronavirus/260-coronavirus-cases-tied-to-north-georgia-camp-outbreak/NZDPEZRRUNHT7CVE43JOPUAVSY/ jm covid-19 symptoms summer-camps pandemic disease georgia kids schools children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ef7db9f5f25/ 2020-07-28T20:46:04+00:00 https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/school-openings-across-globe-suggest-ways-keep-coronavirus-bay-despite-outbreaks jmWhen Science looked at reopening strategies from South Africa to Finland to Israel, some encouraging patterns emerged. Together, they suggest a combination of keeping student groups small and requiring masks and some social distancing helps keep schools and communities safe, and that younger children rarely spread the virus to one another or bring it home. But opening safely, experts agree, isn’t just about the adjustments a school makes. It’s also about how much virus is circulating in the community, which affects the likelihood that students and staff will bring COVID-19 into their classrooms. ]]> covid-19 education schools pods children kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:847faf981a86/ 2020-07-23T14:11:49+00:00 https://schools.forhealth.org/risk-reduction-strategies-for-reopening-schools/ jmWe recognize there are immense challenges. There is no perfect plan to reopen schools safely, only “less bad” options. There is no “one size fits all” strategy that works for every school. Schools have limited budgets and staff. Compliance will be imperfect. Learning will be different. There will be disruption. Schools may need to re-close unexpectedly depending on local conditions. No one knows with certainty what the fall will bring in terms of this pandemic. Despite these challenges, the enormous individual and societal costs of keeping schools closed compels us, a team focused on Healthy Buildings and exposure and risk science, to present a range of control strategies that should be considered in discussions of school reopenings. ]]> health schools reopening covid-19 teaching kids children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5dfcd85537d9/ 2020-07-23T14:10:55+00:00 https://schools.forhealth.org/risk-reduction-strategies-for-reopening-schools/faqs/ jmThere is no such thing as “zero risk” in anything we do, and certainly not during a pandemic. There will be some risk to students, teachers, staff, and families. As such, it is important to reduce these risks to the extent possible. Returning to school should not be “school as usual.” We prepared the following set of questions as a guide for parents, teachers and school staff who may not be sure what to ask or look for at their school. While we offer some insight into the responses you might receive, and expect, each school’s response will be different because there is no “one size fits all” plan for COVID-19. ]]> schools teaching covid-19 health kids children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f59d8717ba89/ 2020-07-21T23:24:16+00:00 https://twitter.com/SarahCohodes/status/1277638735597895680 jm education children kids covid-19 reopening schools teaching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c02e6a3f0f7d/ 2020-07-17T20:09:26+00:00 https://twitter.com/KrutikaKuppalli/status/1284206292005867520 jm Highest COVID-19 rate (18.6%) for household contacts of school-aged children and lowest (5.3%) for household contacts of kids 0-9; - School closure and distancing reduced rate of COVID-19 among contacts of school aged kids. What does this mean? - I believe this further supports that we need to have low rates of community transmission before we consider opening up schools; - Per this data kids 10-19 had highest rates of contacts with COVID-19; - This is scientific data, let this lead our decision. ]]> contact-tracing south-korea schools reopening covid-19 transmission children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:60152e7a22f4/ 2020-07-12T21:26:57+00:00 https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a33274466/school-reopenings-coronavirus-trump-no-plan/ jmI love the public schools my kids attend, but I also know they can't handle a lice outbreak on a good day and are not equipped to handle COVID on a bad one. School principals and superintendents are not epidemiologists or virologists and can’t possibly be expected to make plans like they are. So who should be making decisions? To start, the CDC. So, when the vice president of the United States says, as he did this week, that "we don’t want the guidance from the CDC to be the reason schools don’t open up," what he's really saying is that the government is abandoning children, parents, and all the people who work in schools. ]]> coronavirus usa children pandemics covid-19 schools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b837dca50af2/ 2020-05-13T11:04:00+00:00 https://dontforgetthebubbles.com/evidence-summary-paediatric-covid-19-literature/ jm covid-19 epidemiology diseases transmission school kids children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:733073ab9918/ 2020-01-20T10:22:18+00:00 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-betting-firms-use-schools-data-on-28m-children-dn37nwgd5 jmBetting companies have been given access to an educational database containing names, ages and addresses of 28 million children and students in one of the biggest breaches of government data. They have used it to help increase the proportion of young people who gamble online. It contains details of children age 14 and above in state schools, private schools and colleges in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. ]]> privacy data-protection children kids schools uk betting gambling https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fc4aac3bf7fe/ 2019-04-30T09:59:26+00:00 https://austinkleon.com/2019/04/24/youth-spies-and-curious-elders/?fbclid=IwAR2mxPUX2SFWGL9UxB4TdWB-FQOXQBrDusKxMFpabZOMlyB5rPjjosxUU0U jmThe revolutions of the future will appear in forms we don’t even recognise—in a language we can’t read. We will be looking out for twists on the old themes but not noticing that there are whole new conversations taking place. Just imagine if all the things about which we now get so heated meant nothing to those who follow us—as mysteriously irrelevant as the nuanced distinctions between anarcho-syndicalism and communist anarchism. At least we can hope for that. As the cybernetician Stafford Beer once said to me: “If we can understand our children, we’re all screwed.” So revel in your mystification and read it as a sign of a healthy future. Whatever happens next, it won’t be what you expected. If it is what you expected, it isn’t what’s happening next. ]]> kids learning fashion youth brian-eno john-waters stafford-beer children future music https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7802875e01e8/ 2018-10-31T15:44:29+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/style/kids-study-apps-advertising.html jmIn apps marketed for children 5 and under in the Google Play store, there were pop-up ads with disturbing imagery. There were ads that no child could reasonably be expected to close out of, and which, when triggered, would send a player into more ads. Dancing treasure chests would give young players points for watching video ads, potentially endlessly. The vast majority of ads were not marked at all. Characters in children’s games gently pressured the kids to make purchases, a practice known as host-selling, banned in children’s TV programs in 1974 by the Federal Trade Commission. At other times an onscreen character would cry if the child did not buy something. “The first word that comes to mind is furious,” said Dr. Radesky, an assistant professor of developmental behavioral pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. “I’m a researcher. I want to stay objective. We started this study really just trying to look at distraction. My frustrated response is about all the surprising, potentially deceptive stuff we found.” brb, installing Pi-Hole.]]> children kids ads advertising apps android google ftc games iap https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ee970b2c02b/ 2018-06-20T11:25:24+00:00 https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/18/heres-list-organizations-are-mobilizing-help-separated-immigrant-child/ jmWe’ve compiled a list of organizations that are mobilizing to try and help children that have been separated from their parents at the Texas-Mexico border. ]]> texas children immigration family-separations us-politics usa charity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:77c88fa1345a/ 2018-06-13T22:12:00+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-language-of-the-trump-administration-is-the-language-of-domestic-violence jmGaslighting, it needs not be said, is Trump’s preferred mode of communication, and it is encoded in the family-separation policy itself: once their parents have been taken into custody, the children are reclassified as “unaccompanied minors,” their parents effectively disappeared. On Friday, NPR reported on three Guatemalan mothers who were on trial in Alpine, Texas, after D.H.S. flew their children—ages eight, eight, and nine—more than two thousand miles away, to a shelter in Manhattan. “There is no mention in the Border Patrol narrative,” an immigration lawyer told NPR, “that these women had children with them when they entered the United States.” Can you prove this child is yours? Do you even have children? Well, then, where are they? ]]> children donald-trump new-yorker dhs asylum-seekers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e71a2d0f346d/ 2018-06-13T21:50:06+00:00 https://medium.com/athena-talks/trans-kids-the-people-who-hate-them-8ebdae0baef2 jmResearch (Mental Health of Transgender Children Who Are Supported in Their Identities, Olson et al. 2016) has shown that children whose preferred gender identity is accepted by family and friends have no worse mental health outcomes than other children. But those who are not accepted are much more likely to have mental health issues, self harm or take their own lives. We can take from this that acceptance causes no harm, but non-acceptance causes harm — so why are so many people angry with parents for accepting their trans kids? ]]> trans children kids parenting society gender identity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:15a60d15f228/ 2018-04-12T12:54:35+00:00 http://parentsforchoice.ie/talk-children-abortion-care-run-referendum/ jmShe pointed out one of the “baby” posters the other day when we were in the car and passed one. I said “Actually that’s a baby seed but the people who paid a lot of money for those posters made it look like a baby on purpose, because they think everyone who has a baby seed should have to grow it into a baby whether they wanted to or not. And that I think that’s telling lies and shouldn’t be allowed." ]]> abortion pro-choice kids children education childbirth savita propaganda repealthe8th parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f7e08d1b4f5b/ 2017-11-06T21:19:41+00:00 https://medium.com/@jamesbridle/something-is-wrong-on-the-internet-c39c471271d2 jm internet youtube children web automation violence horror 4chan james-bridle https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1fb2f7c526d7/ 2017-10-24T12:12:54+00:00 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/passive-aggressive-diaries/201201/what-do-when-your-daughter-is-the-mean-girl jmI knew this day would come. I was, of course, hoping it never would-hoping that my daughter would never be mean to someone else's daughter-but as they say, I wrote the book on girl bullying in elementary school, so I knew that there was a pretty good chance that despite all of my best efforts, one of these days, my girl was gonna act like the mean one. This morning, she told me about it. ]]> psychology kids parenting bullies children girls https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fa229d1f6b74/ 2017-10-17T10:26:28+00:00 https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/passive-aggressive-diaries/201203/what-parents-can-do-when-bullying-is-downplayed-school jmDespite the "Bully-Free Zone" posters that line the school cafeteria walls and the Zero-Tolerance policy that was boasted about during last September's Back-to-School night, your experience is that the school would rather not address the problem at all. The responses you get from your child's teacher include bland lip service [...] Good advice for this nasty situation -- I'm thankfully not facing it myself, but bookmarking just in case...]]> bullying kids school education psychology children parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:874619309743/ 2017-06-15T13:36:15+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2017/jan/06/screen-time-guidelines-need-to-be-built-on-evidence-not-hype jmIf the government were to implement guidelines on screen-based technology at this point, as the authors of the letter suggest, this would be on the basis of little to no evidence. This risks the implementation of unnecessary, ineffective or even potentially harmful policies. For guidelines to have a meaningful impact, they need to be grounded in robust research evidence and acknowledge that children’s health and wellbeing is a complex issue affected by many other factors, such as socioeconomic status, relational poverty, and family environment – all of which are likely to be more relevant for children’s health and well-being than screens. For example, there is no consistent evidence that more screen time leads to less outdoor play; if anything the evidence indicates that screen time and physical outdoor activity are unrelated, and reductions in average time spent in outdoor play over time seem to be driven by other factors. Policy efforts to increase outdoor play that focus on screen time are therefore likely to be ineffective. (via Damien Mulley)]]> via:damienmulley science children psychology screens screen-time childhood development evidence policy health open-letters https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7cfff9c3415e/ 2017-05-11T10:51:33+00:00 http://www.ikydz.com/ jm filtering security ikydz kids children internet wifi ap hardware blocking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:de9f1248a02d/ 2017-03-13T11:41:49+00:00 https://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist/193078/item/4577451#item4577451 jm games gaming boardgames kids children reviews https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:186f16c041b5/ 2017-03-13T11:39:56+00:00 https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/175497/dinosaur-escape jmThe object of Dinosaur Escape is to get all three dinosaurs safely to Dinosaur Island before the volcano erupts! Work together to move the dinosaur movers around the board and uncover the matching dinosaurs under the fern tokens. On your turn, roll the die. If you roll a number, move any dinosaur mover the indicated number of spaces any direction on the path. Then turn over one fern token anywhere on the board. If you reveal rocks, bones or other items, flip the token back over. If you reveal a dinosaur, and the dinosaur mover of the same species is in the same habitat area, move the dinosaur moved and matching token to Dinosaur Island. You just helped a dinosaur escape! If you reveal a dinosaur but the dinosaur mover of the same species is not in the same habitat as the token, flip the token back over. Dinosaur movers and matching tokens must be in the same habitat to help a dinosaur escape! If you turn over the T-Rex, RUN! Move each of the dinosaur movers in play back to a start space. If you roll a volcano, place volcano piece number 1 in the stand on the board. If you can find and help all three lost dinosaurs escape to Dinosaur Island before completing the 3D volcano puzzle, you all win! ]]> boardgames reviews kids children co-op games gaming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:31ae6d3b556f/ 2016-10-28T12:22:02+00:00 http://mountainmunchkins.com/ jm clothing jackets kids children shopping outdoor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:550cf01e14f4/ 2016-10-24T16:24:47+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/sep/22/jgballard jmCyril Connolly, the 50s critic and writer, said that the greatest enemy of creativity is the pram in the hall, but I think that was completely wrong. It was the enemy of a certain kind of dilettante life that he aspired to, the man of letters, but for the real novelist the pram in the hall is the greatest ally - it brings you up sharp and you realise what reality is all about. My children were a huge inspiration for me. Watching three young minds creating their separate worlds was a very enriching experience. ]]> writing creativity jg-ballard quotes pram-in-the-hall children kids parenting biography https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ea2d61ce76fa/ 2016-06-15T11:10:40+00:00 http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2016/06/15/sample-letter-to-refuse-permission-for-a-childs-data-to-be-transferred-into-pod/ jmThe Department of Education has issued a new circular accepting it cannot defund the education of children whose parents do not want their kid’s data to be in POD [the privacy-infringing database of all Irish primary-school children]. They’ll only accept a written request as the basis of that refusal, however. So, here’s one you can use that meets the requirements. Send or give it to your school. ]]> pod privacy ireland children kids school https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:52cd80a2d55c/ 2016-05-01T11:00:40+00:00 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/dining/kids-restaurants-nibble-and-squeak.html jmThroughout our three-hour meal, babies cried, mothers nursed, toddlers shrieked and farro grains flew, but the atmosphere was surprisingly leisurely. There was no reason to be self-conscious about a crying-nursing-dancing child because everyone knew every other parent was in the same boat. Or would be in a few seconds. So we relaxed and ate. This is not fine dining as I once knew it, and that’s O.K. That’s what date night is for. But my daughter got her first lesson in how to behave at a fancy restaurant. And I got to finish a delicious meal while it was still warm, toddler in tow. ]]> kids food restaurants eating children toddlers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9389cffbc190/ 2016-04-20T11:35:51+00:00 http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/magazine/the-melancholy-mystery-of-lullabies.html?_r=1&referer= jm One way a mother might bond with a newborn is by sharing her joy; another way is by sharing her grief or frustration. We see this in songs across time. A 200-year-old Arabic lullaby still sung today goes: I am a stranger, and my neighbors are strangers; I have no friends in this world. Winter night and the husband is absent. And an old Spanish lullaby from Asturias, written down by the poet Federico García Lorca, goes: This little boy clinging so Is from a lover, Vitorio, May God, who gave, end my woe, Take this Vitorio clinging so. We assume the sound of these songs is sweet, as no lullaby endures without being effective at putting babies to sleep. Think of ‘‘Rock-a-bye Baby,’’ the way it tenderly describes an infant and its cradle falling to the ground: The singer gets to speak a fear, the baby gets to rest; the singer tries to accommodate herself to a possible loss that has for most of human history been rela­tively common, and the baby gets attentive care. In the Arabic and Spanish lullabies, the singers get to say something to the one being — their new burden, their new love — who can’t and won’t judge or discipline them for saying it. When even relatively happy, well-supported people become the primary caretaker of a very small person, they tend to find themselves eddied out from the world of adults. They are never alone — there is always that tiny person — and yet they are often lonely. Old songs let us feel the fellowship of these other people, across space and time, also holding babies in dark rooms.]]> lullabies songs singing history folk babies children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:587567642bd5/ 2016-04-06T13:15:53+00:00 http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2015/08/31/primary-online-database-pod-now-mostly-not-compulsory-for-now/ jmEver since the introduction of the Primary Online Database of schoolchildren by the Department of Education, the Department and its Minister have been eager to point out that any parent who refused to allow a child’s data to be transferred would see that child’s education defunded. Well, for all children other than this week’s crop of new Junior Infants, that threat has now collapsed. This is despite the Minister and her department having claimed that the drastic threat of defunding was because it simply wasn’t possible to give grants without a child’s full data being transferred. [...] Oddly, as the prospect of defunding the education of 30% of the nation’s children in the run up to an election loomed large, the Department discovered it could, after all, pay for a child’s education without all its POD data. ]]> pod law ireland data-protection privacy children school https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6363fdb39066/ 2015-05-05T13:49:29+00:00 https://totstotravel.co.uk/ jm holidays vacation travel europe kids children via:joe https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1271f95dd4ad/ 2015-01-30T22:30:55+00:00 https://www.facebook.com/groups/nopod/ jmThis group aims to consolidate opposition, give clear information and support letter writing and information awareness against the Dept. of Education's Primary Online Database. ]]> pod ireland privacy data-protection children kids schools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2939049d6d1e/ 2015-01-26T16:16:07+00:00 http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/stop-playing-monopoly-with-your-kids-and-play-these-games-instead/ jm boardgames games kids children 538 statistics ratings https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:72d6c2d53a07/ 2015-01-11T22:23:38+00:00 https://medium.com/@davemolloy/registering-children-irelands-primary-online-database-f11254444cca jmIf you haven’t heard about it, it is a compulsory database of the personal information of children, including PPS numbers, ethnicity, race and language skills, to be held for decades and shared across State agencies. ]]> privacy ppsn databases pod ireland children kids primary-schools https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9aa5f2642386/ 2014-12-29T14:11:39+00:00 http://qz.com/317570/making-your-kid-play-organized-sports-could-cost-them-their-creativity/ jmin spite of an overtly conservative analysis, the results were stark: time spent playing informal sports was significantly and positively related to overall creativity, while time spent playing organized sports was significantly and negatively related to overall creativity. ]]> sports leisure fun children kids creativity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:633da0897c8b/ 2014-10-15T17:01:02+00:00 http://valleywag.gawker.com/facebook-and-apple-offer-egg-freezing-perk-so-women-nev-1646097607 jm grim-meathook-future egg-freezing perks apple facebook work life children work-life-balance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f1481849d844/ 2014-09-15T10:19:11+00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/business/sectors/technology/screen-time-steve-jobs-was-a-low-tech-parent-1.1929304?page=2 jm“This is rule No. 1: There are no screens in the bedroom. Period. Ever.” ]]> screen-time kids children tv mobile technology life rules parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:aeb2f717af75/ 2014-05-29T09:55:03+00:00 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2014/05/you-are-not-a-digital-native-privacy-in-the-age-of-the-internet jm children privacy kids teens digital-natives surveillance cory-doctorow danah-boyd https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3ce7ef6e11ab/ 2014-05-27T22:29:13+00:00 http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2013/03/67-books-every-geek-should-read-to-their-kids-before-age-10/?pid=1185&viewall=true jm reading books kids children education fiction development https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3c82976897e9/ 2014-02-10T15:58:56+00:00 http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/girls-and-software jm feminism community programming coding women computing software society work linux-journal children teaching https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:568cca680e6a/ 2014-02-10T15:20:54+00:00 http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/more-and-more-children-upset-by-online-content-survey-29995307.html jmJust under half of children said they access the internet from their own bedroom on a daily basis with 22pc saying they do so several times a day. ]]> surveys eu ireland politics filtering internet social-media facebook children teens cyber-bullying https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:35ecc7699ff9/ 2014-01-30T12:28:01+00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/a-network-of-homes-where-children-s-happiness-was-relentlessly-destroyed-1.1672331 jmStories of this sort will tumble out to the inquiry over the next 18 months, making it plain that the network of “homes” where children’s happiness had relentlessly, deliberately, systematically been destroyed, this archipelago of Catholic evil, had covered the entire island. These things should be kept in mind when next we hear it said that the social ills of today can be explained by reference to loss of faith in the traditional institutions of moral authority. This is the reverse of the truth and an insult to the victims of an unforgiveable sin. ]]> horror care-homes politics catholicism religion ireland derry church abuse children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:38724c23103a/ 2014-01-24T21:19:40+00:00 http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Broadcasting/ICG/Terms+of+Reference.htm jm internet policing cyberbullying bullying antisocial free-speech governance children blocking filtering consultations dcenr https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7f4fcbbc3dda/ 2013-12-11T16:05:29+00:00 http://www.theguardian.com/science/occams-corner/2013/dec/09/gender-stereotypes-schools-children-choices jmOur children should be free to choose to study what really excites them, not subtly steered away from certain subjects because teachers believe in and propagate the stereotypes. Last year the IOP published a report "It's Different for Girls" which demonstrated that essentially half of state coeducational schools did not see a single girl progress to A-level physics. By contrast, the likelihood of girls progressing from single sex schools were two and a half times greater. Amen to this.]]> sexism schools teaching uk phyics girls children bias stereotypes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:24604c2225f0/ 2013-10-24T09:37:34+00:00 http://rabble.ie/2013/10/23/roma-racism-and-tabloid-policing-interview-with-gary-younge/ jm[This case] shows the link between the popular and the state. This is tabloid journalism followed by tabloid policing. It’s also completely ignorant. I wrote my article on the Roma after covering the community for a week. I thought, “that’s interesting – there’s a range of phenotypes, ways of looking, that include Roma.” I mentioned two blonde kids by chance. I mentioned that Roma are more likely to speak the language of the country they’re in than Romani, more likely to have the religion of the country they’re in. But they have the basic aspect that is true for all identities – they know each other and other people know them. It’s not like I’m an expert on the Roma. I was covering them for a week and after the second day I knew Roma children had blonde hair and blue eyes. These people who took that kid away knew nothing. And on that basis they abducted a child. ]]> roma racism ireland gary-younge tabloid journalist children hse gardai https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:017702d3c7cf/ 2013-10-02T22:51:58+00:00 http://www.poissonrouge.com/bigfish/crowdfunding.php jm french poisson-rouge flash web kids children education https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7aa37ad1f84c/ 2013-08-05T21:41:03+00:00 http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/filters-not-a-silver-bullet-that-will-stop-perverts-warns-interpol-chief-29470817.html jmMoran spoke out after child welfare organisations here called on the Government to follow the UK's example by placing anti-pornography filters on Irish home broadband connections. The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children argued that pornography was damaging to young children and should be removed from their line of sight. But Moran warned this would only lull parents into a false sense of security. "If we imagine the access people had to porn in the past – that access is now complete and total. They have access to the most horrific material out there. We now need to focus on parental responsibility about how kids are using the internet." ]]> mick-moran cam interpol policing ispcc filtering parenting children broadband https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f2b71c6f260c/ 2013-07-01T11:04:54+00:00 http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/2013/comics-for-children-a-visual-list/ jm comics kids children books reading library toget toread https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e2a07f0f9302/ 2013-05-28T15:54:18+00:00 http://www.salon.com/2003/10/21/genome_5/ jm human genome genomics eugenics politics life john-sundman disability health dna medicine salon long-reads children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:20cab9411a13/ 2013-03-21T14:37:49+00:00 http://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/ jm vietnam programming education cs computer-science schools coding children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6aee9bbea52e/ 2012-09-05T09:01:53+00:00 http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/04/estonia-code-academy/ jm estonia education coding programming kids children students learning school https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e3c59fb70ac8/ 2012-06-13T09:43:54+00:00 http://niederfamily.blogspot.com/2012/06/silencing-of-maya.html jm speak-for-yourself children law swpats patenting stories ipad apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:26b519de1dfe/ 2011-12-15T21:08:21+00:00 http://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/24999-coding-for-our-lives? jm coderdojo programming coding kids children teaching education tech ireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8b605da5a485/ 2011-09-22T21:42:12+00:00 http://www.dorodango.com/about.html jm mud dirt dorodango japan art howto sculpture hands craft play children https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0e657b02ef7f/