“Each additional hour of gaming per week was linked to a decline in diet quality, even after accounting for stress, physical activity and other lifestyle factors."
"A trillion-dollar corporation is directly contacting every child to tell them they are old enough to 'graduate' from parental supervision. The email explains how a child can remove those controls themselves, without parental consent or involvement."
"For example, they can set the Shorts feed limit to zero when they want their teen to use YouTube to focus on homework, and change it to 60 minutes during a long car trip to be entertained."
“Parents who lean too much on it for parenting guidance run the risk of adopting parenting styles which may not actually fit their family, or which may be detrimental to children in general.”
Roblox faces yet another lawsuit that claims it has failed to protect young users from predators despite years of Roblox claiming it cares about the safety of its players.
“By the time children reach middle school, they may have watched as many as 8,000 murders and 100,000 other acts of virtual violence through the media."
In an effort to meet kids where they are at, PBS Kids has launched a gaming series that walks kids through some of the games available on PBS’s website.
“I love my NLT translation: ‘You will be able to tell wonderful stories to your children and grandchildren about the marvelous things I am doing (among the Egyptians) to prove that I am Lord.’”
Online video games can often lead children down dangerous paths, most recently seen through “Spawnism,” a cult-like organization started on Roblox that encourages children to self harm and opens them to exploitation.