Here’s a hint for a great summer reading which also turns out to be a fantastic list of summer fun things to do: the book Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), a book that any geek parent should have at home 
Lots of games and activities!
Read a review of the book here, then you can buy it here
Tags: books, Fifty Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do, geeky kids, summer readings
Your kids love to shopping, but our family budget won’t cooperate?
Here’s a website that you might find useful: ThredUp, a place where you can conveniently swap your kids’ gently-worn clothes with kids’clothes from all over the country.
And you can have your kids participate in the picking-up decision…
Tags: kids' clothes, kids'utilities, recycling clothes, ThredUP, useful websites
Here’s a good piece of advice from Christy Matte at her Family Computing blog: she suggests you donate your old gaming systems to the Get-Well Gamers Foundation. They refurbish them when necessary, then distribute them to their network of more than 80 children’s hospitals. Read more at the Get Well Gamers website, where you can find a list of acepted games, systems, controllers and much more.
Tags: charitable giving, consoles, Get-Well Gamers Foundation, old games, old gaming systems, Videogames
Kids all over U.S. are the most concerned about the ecological disaster (and that’s quite obvious, since it’s going to affect their future more than ours)
Videos proposing solutions to the oil spill are all over the Net these days.
Above you can watch one of the cutest
Tags: BP oil spill, geeky kids
Just another reason why it could be difficult to keep your kids off your iPhone
Microsoft debuts its Windows Live Messenger, available as a free download in the iTunes App Store since yesterday. There are also a number of additional features (e.g. connections to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Hotmail accounts). Read more at Technologizer
Symantec has published the results of the survey they conducted of 2800 children and 7000 adults in 14 countries. The subjects covered are CyberBullying, Adult Content, Social Networking and other related areas. The report provide interesting insights on what kids do online and parents’ perception. You can read and download the whole report at The Norton Online Family Report Webpage (a few safety tips included). Do you know exactly what your kids are doing online?
Image Credit: Geek Dad
Tags: CyberBullying, kids'safety online, Norton, Norton Online Family Report, Safety, safety tips, social networking, Symantec
At the E3 this weekend Microsoft announced the launch of Kinect, the development project formerly known as Project Natal, for this fall. There’s also an array already of new designed Kinect games, among which EA Sports Active 2 , Kinectimals, Dance Central…
Ready to put your hands on the new device? Read more here
via Family Computing
Tags: Dance Central, E3, EA Sports Active 2, Kinect, Kinectimals, Microsoft, Project Natal
Bad news from Great Britain for all the geeky parents!
According to Dr Aric Sigman, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, exposure to computer screens in schools and nurseries is threatening the development of young children. The Doc is demanding a ban on screen technology until children they reach nine. The alleged reason is that children need to experience real world before undertaking virtual adventures in order to develop spatial awareness and other important skills.
Doc Sigman has also criticised a Government “nappy curriculum” requiring nurseries and childminders to teach children to turn on and operate televisions and computers before the age of two.
We at kidzmodo do not quite agree with this stand as we do think that ICT can and should be an important part of any child’s curriculum, preparing him/her for a well-skilled future.
Let us hear your voice about it…what do you think?
via Daily Mail
Tags: Aric Sigman, Daily Mail, development, ICT learning, learning, nappy curriculum, PC, Royal Society of Medicine
We’ve already talked about the American Museum of Natural History here …but did you know they also have a website especially designed for kids called Ology where you can find lots of activities games, cards, projects trivia & fun facts about the natural world? Also, in the section “Kids & Families @ the Museum” you might schedule your next special “night at the museum” or other super fun activities to do with your kids.
Fun!
Tags: American Museum of Natural History, Edutainment, fun with the kids, kids & families, Ology, websites for kids
OLPC has announced a partnership with Marvell to create a tablet PC to be sold for less tahn $100, the release deadline being January 6-9 2011. It sounds like an ambitious project (OLPC has already been criticized for his project “One Laptop Per Child” having failed to reach the goal hoped by the organization: the XO computers are, in fact, available for $ 175, a sum which is higher than the announced $100).
Read more here
Do you think this project will succed and children in developing countries will actually benefit from it or is the whole thing somehow unrealistic?
via Family Computing
Tags: Marvell, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, XO computer
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