Pinboard (jm) https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm Frequent infections in nursery help toddlers build up immune systems 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/ How Many Children Get Long COVID? 2025-05-14T16:15:20+00:00 https://gidmk.substack.com/p/how-many-children-get-long-covid jm If we take the ONS as the most recent estimate - it’s also probably the best scientifically - we could make a reasonable argument that the rate of all Long COVID for children aged 2-15 in 2024 is unlikely to be higher than 0.6%. For severe Long COVID, the number is more like 0.06%. If we take into account the lack of a control group in the ONS study, the numbers might look more like 0.3% and 0.03%. To put it more simply, based on the ONS data it seems likely that if 1,000 kids get COVID-19 in 2024, 30-60 of them will have a cough, headache, or fatigue that lasts longer than three months. Of those 30-60 children, 3-6 will have significant symptoms that have impacts on their daily life - maybe their headaches are so bad that they miss some days of school, or similar. These aren’t firm numbers, and I want to make it clear that this is all very uncertain. The true incidence could be much higher, or much lower. That being said, I think based on the data we’ve currently got that Long COVID ... is now quite rare. ]]> covid-19 kids long-covid epidemiology health https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eb06aa2b5577/ Darwin’s Children Drew All Over the "On The Origin of Species" Manuscript 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/ Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens 2025-02-13T12:33:41+00:00 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/09637214221121570 jm Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack people’s attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental habits that help them avoid being tempted by attention-grabbing and potentially harmful content. We argue that digital information literacy must include the competence of critical ignoring—choosing what to ignore and where to invest one’s limited attentional capacities. We review three types of cognitive strategies for implementing critical ignoring: - self-nudging, in which one ignores temptations by removing them from one’s digital environments; - lateral reading, in which one vets information by leaving the source and verifying its credibility elsewhere online; - and the do-not-feed-the-trolls heuristic, which advises one to not reward malicious actors with attention. We argue that these strategies implementing critical ignoring should be part of school curricula on digital information literacy. Good to give names to these practices, since we're all having to do them nowadays anyway... (Via Stan Carey)]]> psychology trolls media kids internet literacy attention critical-ignoring ignoring papers via:stancarey https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:44249586bf57/ AI trained on photos from kids’ entire childhood without their consent 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/ Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms 2024-02-06T15:22:29+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/18/instagram-facebook-child-sexual-harassment jmMeta estimates about 100,000 children using Facebook and Instagram receive online sexual harassment each day, including “pictures of adult genitalia”, according to internal company documents made public late Wednesday. [....] The documents describe an incident in 2020 when the 12-year-old daughter of an executive at Apple was solicited via IG Direct, Instagram’s messaging product. “This is the kind of thing that pisses Apple off to the extent of threatening to remove us from the App Store,” a Meta employee fretted, according to the documents. A senior Meta employee described how his own daughter had been solicited via Instagram in testimony to the US Congress late last year. His efforts to fix the problem were ignored, he said. Last week's "Moderated Content" podcast episode was well worth a listen on this: "Big Tech's Big Tobacco Moment" - https://law.stanford.edu/podcasts/big-techs-big-tobacco-moment/]]> facebook fail kids moderation parenting meta safety smartphones instagram harassment sexual-harassment https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:90a79538a84e/ Cruise self-driving cars fail to perceive kids or holes in the road 2023-11-08T01:37:34+00:00 https://theintercept.com/2023/11/06/cruise-self-driving-cars-children/ jm 'The materials note results from simulated tests in which a Cruise vehicle is in the vicinity of a small child. “Based on the simulation results, we can’t rule out that a fully autonomous vehicle might have struck the child,” reads one assessment. In another test drive, a Cruise vehicle successfully detected a toddler-sized dummy but still struck it with its side mirror at 28 miles per hour. The internal materials attribute the robot cars’ inability to reliably recognize children under certain conditions to inadequate software and testing. “We have low exposure to small VRUs” — Vulnerable Road Users, a reference to children — “so very few events to estimate risk from,” the materials say. Another section concedes Cruise vehicles’ “lack of a high-precision Small VRU classifier,” or machine learning software that would automatically detect child-shaped objects around the car and maneuver accordingly. The materials say Cruise, in an attempt to compensate for machine learning shortcomings, was relying on human workers behind the scenes to manually identify children encountered by AVs where its software couldn’t do so automatically.' also: 'Cruise has known its cars couldn’t detect holes, including large construction pits with workers inside, for well over a year, according to the safety materials reviewed by The Intercept. Internal Cruise assessments claim this flaw constituted a major risk to the company’s operations. Cruise determined that at its current, relatively miniscule fleet size, one of its AVs would drive into an unoccupied open pit roughly once a year, and a construction pit with people inside it about every four years.'
The company's response? Avoid driving during the daytime, when most kids are awake. Night time kids better watch out, though.]]> cruise fail tech self-driving cars vrus kids safety via:donal https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d8c7cf4090a7/ A battle is raging over long covid in children | MIT Technology Review 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/ Outdoor Swimming Pools in Ireland 2021-07-28T09:50:50+00:00 https://www.mykidstime.com/travel/outdoor-swimming-pools-in-ireland/ jm swimming ireland outdoors heated pools kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:84e3ef7210f1/ Long-term Symptoms After SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children and Adolescents 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/ We should shift our focus from covid-19 mortality to morbidity, particularly in children 2021-07-07T12:22:11+00:00 https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/06/we-should-shift-our-focus-from-covid-19-mortality-to-morbidity-particularly-in-children/ jmThe UK is an outlier by allowing children to remain unvaccinated at a time when lifting of restrictions will increase covid-19 infection rates. We have heard much about how vaccination is breaking — or weakening — the link between SARS-CoV-2 and the clinical manifestations of covid-19. We consider the nature of this link from the perspective of quantitative modelling — and what it means for risks following exposure to the virus. In brief, it suggests we should shift our focus from mortality to morbidity, particularly in children. ]]> bmj uk covid-19 morbidity mortality disease modelling kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:305304b659e8/ Anthony Costello on Long COVID in the UK 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/ Parental control - DD-WRT Wiki 2021-04-12T10:09:57+00:00 https://wiki.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Parental_control jm dd-wrt networking parenting parental-controls kids internet home https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:034169cdf375/ GeyserMC 2021-04-09T15:04:11+00:00 https://geysermc.org/ jm kids minecraft interop bedrock papermc switch games https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c87668e34684/ Kids and COVID-19 2021-03-29T22:23:37+00:00 https://suddenlyathome.net/tuesday-update-for-2021-03-16-kids/ jmThe general perception and belief for the last year has been that children are less likely than adults to be infected with SARS-CoV-2. A new paper in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases casts serious doubt on this assumption. The author of that paper, Zoë Hyde of the University of Western Australia, argues that there are two principal reasons why the myth of a lower attack rate in children developed: we don’t test kids much, and they may only be infectious for a very short window of time. The CDC’s stance on kids and Covid seems to be overly sanguine. The metric used in their paper is hos­pit­alization rate. It is true that hospitalization rates for teenagers and younger people are extremely low, but that may not be strongly indicative of infection rate. Kids’ infections are more likely to result in a mild or even asymptomatic case of Covid-19 — about twice as likely as for adults, according to Hyde. Combine this fact with the US bias towards testing only once symptoms appear, and you can see how this could contribute to an undercount of childhood cases. Compounding the dearth of testing is the (fairly robust) finding that, when infected, children may be shedding virus for a shorter time than adults: only two days on average, compared to five days for adults. So kids are more than twice as likely to show up PCR-negative even in the rare instances in which they are tested. Looking at seroprevalence surveys, Hyde cites studies from Italy and Brazil pointing to similar levels of children and adults who have antibodies indicating they have recovered from the disease. (In the Italian study from last year, children’s seroprevalence was even higher than that of the oldest adults, the result of what Hyde calls “survivorship bias” — i.e., the older people who got Covid-19 mostly died.) The hosts on This Week in Virology went over Hyde’s paper in last week’s podcast, TWiV #731. If you can spare the time, listen to 11 minutes’ worth of their discussion beginning at 23:33. One compelling point the TWiV team brought out: children are not immune from long Covid. A UK study found that 12.9% of kids had symptoms weeks after clearing the disease, compared with 22% of adults. The belief that children don’t get infected much should no longer be used as an argument for why schools ought to be reopened. ]]> kids covid-19 schools safety bias kdawson https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:350989740420/ (PDF) COVID‐19, children and schools: overlooked and at risk (author reply) 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/ webPOISONCONTROL Triage 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/ Updated thread on children & COVID-19, summarising recent research 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/ Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in children - A prospective multicentre cohort study. | medRxiv 2020-09-04T09:21:44+00:00 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.31.20183095v1 jm covid-19 symptoms kids schools sars-cov-2 studies preprints papers uk testing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:802fb6bba3e2/ Children in close contact with a confirmed case of Covid-19 were not contacted for nine days 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/ interesting results on children and COVID-19 -- high asymptomatic infection rate 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/ Yes, kids can get COVID-19 – 3 pediatricians explain what's known about coronavirus and children 2020-08-11T21:34:51+00:00 https://theconversation.com/yes-kids-can-get-covid-19-3-pediatricians-explain-whats-known-about-coronavirus-and-children-139816 jm covid-19 disease kids schools transmission https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:255d23177838/ Objectives for COVID-19 testing in school settings 2020-08-11T21:19:27+00:00 https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/objectives-covid-19-testing-school-settings jm ecdc covid-19 infection transmission airborne aerosols schools kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:142c5280b139/ The effect of school closures and reopening strategies on COVID-19 infection dynamics in the San Francisco Bay Area: a cross-sectional survey and modeling analysis | medRxiv 2020-08-10T15:42:12+00:00 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.06.20169797v1 jmLarge-scale school closures have been implemented worldwide to curb the spread of COVID-19. However, the impact of school closures and re-opening on epidemic dynamics remains unclear. Methods: We simulated COVID-19 transmission dynamics using an individual-based stochastic model, incorporating social-contact data of school-aged children during shelter-in-place orders derived from Bay Area (California) household surveys. We simulated transmission under observed conditions and counterfactual intervention scenarios between March 17-June 1, and evaluated various fall 2020 K-12 reopening strategies. Findings: Between March 17-June 1, assuming children <10 were half as susceptible to infection as older children and adults, we estimated school closures averted a similar number of infections (13,842 cases; 95% CI: 6,290, 23,040) as workplace closures (15,813; 95% CI: 9,963, 22,617) and social distancing measures (7,030; 95% CI: 3,118, 11,676). School closure effects were driven by high school and middle school closures. Under assumptions of moderate community transmission, we estimate that fall 2020 school reopenings will increase symptomatic illness among high school teachers (an additional 40.7% expected to experience symptomatic infection, 95% CI: 1.9, 61.1), middle school teachers (37.2%, 95% CI: 4.6, 58.1), and elementary school teachers (4.1%, 95% CI: -1.7, 12.0). Results are highly dependent on uncertain parameters, notably the relative susceptibility and infectiousness of children, and extent of community transmission amid re-opening. The school-based interventions needed to reduce the risk to fewer than an additional 1% of teachers infected varies by grade level. A hybrid-learning approach with halved class sizes of 10 students may be needed in high schools, while maintaining small cohorts of 20 students may be needed for elementary schools. Interpretation: Multiple in-school intervention strategies and community transmission reductions, beyond the extent achieved to date, will be necessary to avoid undue excess risk associated with school reopening. Policymakers must urgently enact policies that curb community transmission and implement within-school control measures to simultaneously address the tandem health crises posed by COVID-19 and adverse child health and development consequences of long-term school closures. ]]> covid-19 bay-area schools kids transmission models https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:130ed9027564/ Harvard-UC Boulder Portable Air Cleaner Calculator for Schools 2020-08-04T23:12:39+00:00 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NEhk1IEdbEi_b3wa6gI_zNs8uBJjlSS-86d4b7bW098/edit#gid=0 jm air-cleaners filtration spreadsheets covid-19 schools kids air-quality air https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:26cb85dde2e2/ "Three new important studies came out in the past week about kids & COVID-19" 2020-08-04T10:18:09+00:00 https://twitter.com/meganranney/status/1289192833790877698 jm parenting kids schools covid-19 transmission pandemics viruses sars-cov-2 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:878fee02a9e0/ Georgia camp outbreak shows rapid virus spread among children 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/ US Spring school closures tied to drastic decrease in Covid-19 cases, deaths in model 2020-07-29T15:47:27+00:00 https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/29/school-reopening-covid19-cases/ jmTheir projection found that, if schools had stayed open, there could have been roughly 424 more coronavirus infections and 13 more deaths per 100,000 residents over the course of 26 days. Extrapolate that to the American population, and the country might have seen as many as 1.37 million more cases and 40,600 more deaths, explained Samir Shah, the director of hospital medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and one of the authors of the paper. “These numbers seem ridiculously high and it’s mind-boggling to think that these numbers are only … in the first several weeks,” said Shah. “That’s bonkers.” He warned, though, that those numbers should be taken with a grain of salt. While their statistical model attempts to pinpoint the impact of schools staying open or being closed, the method can’t actually establish any sort of causal relationship. ]]> models modelling schools reopening covid-19 kids us https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bfe4e0de7180/ School openings across globe suggest ways to keep coronavirus at bay, despite outbreaks | Science | AAAS 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/ Schools Will Eventually Need to Reopen – Schools For Health 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/ 20 Questions to Ask before Sending your Kids Back to School – Schools For Health 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/ amazing long twitter thread on school reopening 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/ 報復性熬夜 (revenge bedtime procrastination) 2020-06-29T10:39:46+00:00 https://twitter.com/daphnekylee/status/1277101831693275136 jm day night life kids parenting procrastination bedtime sleep china https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:49632d68dd64/ An evidence summary of Paediatric COVID-19 literature 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/ educational/maths resources for your children at home 2020-03-13T15:22:49+00:00 https://twitter.com/aoibhinn_ni_s/status/1238384369435324419 jm education teaching maths math covid-19 kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d8f2d57978fe/ How to crossplay Minecraft on PS4 with Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PC 2020-03-13T14:40:00+00:00 https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/02/08/how-to-crossplay-minecraft-ps4-with-nintendo-switch-xbox-one-pc/ jmHowever, while the new snapshot is extremely neat, so too is the ability for PlayStation 4 players to crossplay with mates on Nintendo Switch, PC and Xbox One. This feature was introduced to Sony's version at the tail-end of last year, and in this article you'll find out how to play with your mates on other devices. ]]> minecraft crossplay ps4 switch gaming games kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2feababcfbe3/ Cut / Fold Templates for paper mechanisms 2020-03-13T10:59:53+00:00 http://cutfoldtemplates.com/ jm geometry origami paper templates pdf todo kids papercraft making crafting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9424e62feb00/ How to Utilise Twinkl during the Coronavirus Shutdown: A Guide for Schools 2020-03-12T15:29:24+00:00 https://www.twinkl.ie/blog/how-to-utilise-twinkl-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown-a-guide-for-schools jm kids education self-isolation covid-19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ddfdb3f83e7/ Online Resources For Isolation 2020-03-12T15:28:30+00:00 https://wholesomeireland.com/online-resources-for-isolation/ jmHere we have it. My free ‘what the heck do I do with my kids while they are at home in isolation’ guide to online resources. Bookmark this; in all likelihood we are all going to need it. Just to mention; don’t unleash your kids at all of this in the first day or even days. There is loads for them to work their way through. If you let them do everything all at once they will become overwhelmed and disinterested. ]]> education kids ireland self-isolation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:617a1bec2af2/ Sprouts 2020-02-24T10:51:25+00:00 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game) jmSprouts is a paper-and-pencil game that can be enjoyed simply by both adults and children. Yet it also can be analyzed for its significant mathematical properties. It was invented by mathematicians John Horton Conway (*that* Conway) and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in the early 1960s. ]]> games paper sprouts kids fun https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ac8d2376eae2/ Revealed: betting firms use schools data on 28m UK children 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/ "Let Kids Be Kids" 2019-11-28T16:22:55+00:00 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1199462554751393792.html jm far-right ireland lkbk kids sex-education education schools campaigns https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fc4939730c88/ It's later than you think 2019-09-04T22:10:44+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/its-later-than-you-think-j-r-storment/ jmEight years ago, during the same month, I had twin boys and co-founded Cloudability. About three months ago Cloudability was acquired. About three weeks ago we lost one of our boys. ]]> death kids horror probabilities epilepsy health life chance https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cdecaba2ae7d/ Youth Spies and Curious Elders - Austin Kleon 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/ At wit’s end with my preschooler : Parenting 2019-04-10T09:39:37+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/bb7lx0/at_wits_end_with_my_preschooler/ jm parenting kids tantrums anger reddit advice https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:13a128795122/ April Fool's Day is upon us - What's your best prank given to or received by your kids? : Parenting 2019-04-01T10:36:06+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/Parenting/comments/b7o9lw/april_fools_day_is_upon_us_whats_your_best_prank/ jm pranks april-fools kids parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5db7c0e37aa3/ On the association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use 2019-01-16T15:45:26+00:00 https://twitter.com/patmarkey/status/1084842687755362305/photo/1 jm potatoes funny glasses asthma milk movies music religion cycling screens screentime kids teenagers wellbeing mental-health https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8d335bcf38e2/ Your Kid’s Apps Are Crammed With Ads - The New York Times 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/ A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley - The New York Times 2018-10-31T15:43:03+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html jmJohn Lilly, a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist with Greylock Partners and the former C.E.O. of Mozilla, said he tries to help his 13-year-old son understand that he is being manipulated by those who built the technology. “I try to tell him somebody wrote code to make you feel this way — I’m trying to help him understand how things are made, the values that are going into things and what people are doing to create that feeling,” Mr. Lilly said. “And he’s like, ‘I just want to spend my 20 bucks to get my Fortnite skins.’” ]]> kids technology education parenting screentime apps tech phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:da2368df777e/ Using Kindle Fire's Parental Controls 2018-07-12T10:51:36+00:00 https://kidslox.com/blog/using-kindle-fires-parental-controls/ jm kindle fire parental-controls devices kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f34e91380fcb/ Trans kids & the people who hate them 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/ I Am the One Woman Who Has It All | The New Yorker 2018-05-02T15:13:08+00:00 https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-am-the-one-woman-who-has-it-all jm I have two kids and the unspoken pressure to act like they don’t exist when I’m on a conference call. I have no problem lying about “being in a meeting” when I’m with my kids and no problem lying to my kids about “needing to work” when I’m on Facebook. ]]> parenting funny new-yorker women life work work-life-balance kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5dfbc8805fb1/ For the first time, parents will be able to limit YouTube Kids to human-reviewed channels and recommendations | TechCrunch 2018-04-30T14:27:28+00:00 https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/for-the-first-time-parents-can-limit-youtube-kids-to-human-reviewed-videos-and-recommendations/ jm youtube google parents parenting kids apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f026cfd6c0a0/ How to talk to your children about abortion care in the run-up to the referendum 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/ If iPads were meant for kids 2018-04-09T09:57:49+00:00 https://davedelong.com/blog/2018/04/06/if-ipads-were-meant-for-kids/ jm ios ipad iphone parenting devices kids android youtube https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:81f2b5d48186/ Parental Controls & Internet Filtering — Circle 2017-11-27T11:25:22+00:00 https://meetcircle.com/?ref=GIFTTT jm apps kids android ios circle filtering family parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:384a9f04177b/ What To Do When Your Daughter Is the Mean Girl | Psychology Today 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/ What Parents Can Do When Bullying is Downplayed at School | Psychology Today 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/ Teaching Students to Code - What Works 2017-09-11T11:21:54+00:00 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/teaching-students-code-what-works-lynn-langit/ jm education learning coding teaching tkp lynn-langit scratch kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:70e45a0ce512/ Britta Blvd - The Marauders' Map 2017-08-28T22:18:33+00:00 http://www.brittablvd.com/wizards/Year6/prep/map/mapnp.html jm harry-potter papercraft origami kids https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:beba3a31e258/ iKydz 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/ When the Children Crashed Dad’s BBC Interview: The Family Speaks - WSJ 2017-03-15T11:16:57+00:00 https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-the-children-crashed-dads-bbc-interview-the-family-speaks-1489511175 jmMr. Kelly describes his reaction as a mixture of surprise, embarrassment and amusement but also love and affection. The couple says they weren’t mad and didn’t scold the children. “I mean it was terribly cute,” Mr. Kelly said. “I saw the video like everybody else. My wife did a great job cleaning up a really unanticipated situation as best she possibly could... It was funny. If you watch the tape I was sort of struggling to keep my own laughs down. They’re little kids and that’s how things are.” “Yes I was mortified, but I also want my kids to feel comfortable coming to me,” Mr. Kelly said. aww!]]> cute family bbc interviews funny viral kids hippity-hoppity robert-kelly https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:973d6c95b27b/ Fides Raising Gamers (age 2 - 5) | BoardGameGeek 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/ Dinosaur Escape - BoardGameGeek 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/ X-Plan: Giving your kids a way out 2017-02-27T10:53:02+00:00 https://bertfulks.com/2017/02/23/x-plan-giving-your-kids-a-way-out-xplan/ jm xplan escape escape-hatch parenting kids peer-pressure teens x-plan https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:290463ede63f/ Minor Infractions — Real Life 2017-02-10T14:44:24+00:00 http://reallifemag.com/minor-infractions/ jmWhen our son turned 12, we gave him a phone and allowed him to use social media, with a condition: He had no right to privacy. We would periodically and without warning read his texts and go through his messenger app. We would follow him on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (though we wouldn’t comment or tag him — we’re not monsters). We wouldn’t ambush him about what we read and we wouldn’t attempt to embarrass him. Anything that wasn’t dangerous or illegal, we would ignore. Food for thought. But not yet!]]> surveillance family kids privacy online social-media teenagers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f6e9be539cd7/ Mountain Munchkins 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/ JG Ballard, on the "pram in the hall" 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/ SMC Education Blog — Girls and Their Frenemies 2016-09-23T19:46:41+00:00 http://smceducationblog.tumblr.com/post/150629869120/girls-and-their-frenemies jm kids friendship girls frenemies bullying school https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4434b13486c0/ My kids don't have a YouTube channel — but they pretend they do 2016-06-28T15:46:34+00:00 http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-youtube-kids-20160627-snap-story.html jm“Dad is making a right turn now,” my 5-year-old son Jack will say as he newscasts the ride to school to a fictional audience. “Don’t forget to subscribe,” his sister Ella, 6, will often interject -- again, to no one in particular. When I was their age, I’d pretend to be a soldier or a baseball player. Today, kids apparently aspire to be vloggers. It’s not enough for them to watch their favorite shows. They want to broadcast their lives, banter with commenters and keep their make-believe view counts high. ]]> youtube kids wtf video broadcasting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:824ce11a8bfe/