Sports Gambling
This week we hit the time that sports lovers absolutely yearn for. Yes, the baseball season is winding down, but baseball playoffs are overlapping with games in the National Football League, the National Hockey League, and this week’s start of…
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Testosterone-Maxxing
Thanks to the continued rise of body-image pressure that has been fed and fueled by marketing and social media, our teenage boys are being encouraged to engage in what’s called “Testosterone-maxxing”, or “testmaxxing.” The practice involves attempts to increase male…
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Smartphone Use and Declining Test Grades
At the start of this year’s school year, we were hearing reports about more and more schools nationwide that were taking steps to get the smartphones out of their student’s hands during the school day. This a great move that…
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Our Kids and Homemade AI Porn
A current lawsuit case hitting the courts is one we need to be aware of if we love and lead kids. A seventeen year old New Jersey teenager is suing the company that created an AI app that will manipulate…
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Binge Gaming
Recent research coming out of Hong Kong assessed twenty-six hundred school children regarding video gaming and mental health. The research looked at what’s called binge-gaming, defined as spending at least five hours in a row playing computer games. They found…
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