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Don’t have a clue to what Cloud Computing is? Let the kids explain.

Don’t have a clue to what Cloud Computing is? Let the kids explain.

Cloud Computing is probably one of the biggest buzzwords out three right now when it comes to technology and computers. Companies around the world are investing millions, and even billions, of dollars into moving to the Cloud ... continue
George Orwell goes to school with your kids

George Orwell goes to school with your kids

George Orwell. Grave. Roll over. According to NBC Chicago school administrators in the city are going to start GPS tagging students who travel to school by bus. Using a GPS technology developed by Zonar Systems the district will ... continue
11-year-old asks Nintendo for a DS, Nintendo produces the goods

11-year-old asks Nintendo for a DS, Nintendo produces the goods

After she was tasked with writing a letter to a company as a homework assignment, 11-year-old Helen from Australia opted to write to Nintendo and ask for a Nintendo DS, because her parents wouldn't get her one. Anyway, ... continue
Education: The one resource we can’t afford to screw up – but are.

Education: The one resource we can’t afford to screw up – but are.

We live in a society that likes to think that its most important resources are the physical ones like gold, diamonds, oil, or just about anything that can be translated to a dollar amount. However when it ... continue
Parents – share your agony

Parents – share your agony

Kid's are wonderful and as much as we may love them there are time when severe bodily harm to them crosses our minds. As therapeutic as it might be to make them suffer all seven levels of hell when ... continue
9 Cases where no-one or nothing is safe from zombies

9 Cases where no-one or nothing is safe from zombies

The zombies are coming (and no I don't mean the band is reforming for a geriatric tour) and nothing is save from them. From our cartoon favorites, to our computer icons and even our children and their ... continue
Arizona Storms Lead To Flooding, 6 Year Old Boy Swept Away, Presumed Dead

Arizona Storms Lead To Flooding, 6 Year Old Boy Swept Away, Presumed Dead

With heavy storms hitting much of California and Arizona there's always the sad reality that deaths may occur, now we've received news that a 6 year old boy was swept away by rising flood waters in Arizona ... continue
11 Million Britons will need to register before being allowed near kids

11 Million Britons will need to register before being allowed near kids

Using the argument that if this new vetting and barring scheme being handled by the Independent Safeguarding Authority of the Home Office even saves one child from the hands of a pedophile it is  ... continue
An Ode to Childhood Lost

An Ode to Childhood Lost

The future of intelligent children’s television programming just became significantly darker, and it truly saddens me - “Reading Rainbow”, a staple of both PBS and bright children nationwide, has been canceled after a wonderful run of 26 ... continue
Selling out your kids online chats

Selling out your kids online chats

Parents generally try to do the right thing when it comes to the amount of time their children spend on the web. They do everything they can to try and make it a safe ... continue
Parents have new tools to stalk their college-aged kids – Thanks Facebook and Twitter

Parents have new tools to stalk their college-aged kids – Thanks Facebook and Twitter

This is an excellently done spoof (we hope) where “E-Mom” Gloria Bianco shows mom’s and dad’s how easy it is to stalk stay in touch with their children at college using tools like Facebook ... continue
Homeless teens set out to change New York rooftops

Homeless teens set out to change New York rooftops

One of the hot topics in the whole ‘green’ movement is the idea of turning city rooftops into living green spaces with everything from gardens growing vegetables to small parks. In New York this ... continue
Not your normal ‘the dog ate my homework’ excuse

Not your normal ‘the dog ate my homework’ excuse

As concern over the rising number of children who are obese many researchers are trying to find ways to keep track of how active children really are. In one recent study done by the ... continue
A serious WTF and I mean seriously – WTF!!

A serious WTF and I mean seriously – WTF!!

As much as a single picture can express a t hought equal to thousands of words there are equally one’s that make you shake one’s head in serious disbelief and go WTF! This one ... continue
Watch out mommy-bloggers those daddy-bloggers are catching up

Watch out mommy-bloggers those daddy-bloggers are catching up

Typically when we talk about men and blogging the first thing that comes to mind are tech or politics. When we talk about women and blogging we generally think of politics and their stronghold ... continue
Help your kids become nature voyeurs

Help your kids become nature voyeurs

Kids have incredibly inquisitive minds always wanting to know stuff, especially when it comes to nature and the the world around them. Encyclopedias, or now Wikipedia, can only fill in so many blanks for ... continue
Zapping kids with 50,000-volt stun gun isn’t good for job advancement

Zapping kids with 50,000-volt stun gun isn’t good for job advancement

‘Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day’ is a tradition in many places. After all what better way to have iPod listening, iPhone texting kids understand the hardships we go through each day ... continue
New AT&T service good for kids not so good for husbands

New AT&T service good for kids not so good for husbands

Sunshine over at Liveside has news of a new service from AT&T called FamilyMap that aims to help parents keep track of their kids in real time, as long as they have a cellphone ... continue
A little recycled love for the kids

A little recycled love for the kids

Can’t let a Saturday go by without at least one aww isn’t that cute type of post and today’s version comes to us from Tiny Revolution and their line of Eco Tees for kids. The company ... continue
Protecting our children by turning them into felons

Protecting our children by turning them into felons

There is a growing group in the United States that is facing an increasing number of charges for creating and distributing pornography and contributing to child abuse but it isn’t who you think it is. As ... continue
Psstt.. don’t let Louis Gray hear about this .. kthxbai

Psstt.. don’t let Louis Gray hear about this .. kthxbai

Knowing that Louis and his lovely wife are the proud parents of a set of twins is kind of helpful in setting up this piece of news. As well anyone who knows Louis also knows he ... continue
China gives birth to babies with birth defects every 30 seconds

China gives birth to babies with birth defects every 30 seconds

As China rushes head long into the modern world it finds itself combating the effects of that modern society. Effects that are having a profound effect on the people of the country as well as the ... continue