Kids

Scientists have criticized new research linking excessive smartphone to early puberty onset. The research is unpublished and was promoted through a press release packed with wild speculation, offering a perfect case study in bad science communication.

New research suggests smartphones, screen-time, and social media have not negatively affected kids’ social skills, and modern concerns over the impact of screen-time recalls past “moral panics” over the effect of new technology on children.

Before "interactive movie" video games there were Choose Your Own Adventure books. Streaming video technology has now allowed Netflix to embrace the concept and release its first interactive "branching" narrative​ program that gives viewers a say in how the story progresses.

A new toilet-training device combines a wearable sensor pad, Bluetooth technology, an iOS device and accompanying app to help toilet train intellectually disabled children. The device has toilet trained kids who've been wearing disposable underwear for years in under 45 days.

Peanut allergies are very common - roughly one in every 200 children will suffer from a reaction, and peanuts are the leading cause of food-related deaths. So it's good to hear that researchers may have discovered a cure for peanut allergies.