Wellness in the Age of the Smartphone
How is the rise of mobile technology impacting our wellbeing and health? Published this week 'Wellness in the Age of the Smartphone' attempts to begin...
07
Apr
Blog
01
Mar
Digital detox for kids [PODCAST]
I recently recorded a podcast on the subject of digital detox for kids with The Parent Hood, looking at how to manage screen time healthily...
05
Feb
The tech industry needs to step up to keep children safe online
On Safer Internet Day, everyone in the tech industry, not just those working in e-safety, needs to ask if they are doing enough to keep children safe...
04
Jan
Parents and schools must work together to tackle social media pressures on children
A report published by the Children’s Commissioner for England ‘Life in Likes’, shows that primary school children are ill prepared for the increasing...
16
Aug
The truth about children and smartphones
The issue of children and smartphones raised its head this week with an emotive headline in US magazine Atlantic 'Have smartphones destroyed a generation?' The timing...
19
May
UK children and parents being failed by lack of screentime guidelines
As part of the programme of talks I do in UK schools to children and their parents I can be guaranteed that I...
18
Nov
#PorteOuverte: social media at its best
In one of my lives I run a digital detox business. But I'm always at pains to point out that this emphatically does...
09
Jul
Books, not screens, are the answer at bedtime.
Sleep researchers now know that we are sleeping nearly an hour and a half less per night during the working week than we...
02
Jul
Why we all failed at logging-off
[caption id="attachment_14325" align="aligncenter" width="216"] Must try harder.[/caption] On National Unplugging Day in the UK I knew several people who were planning on giving it...