Short reads on intentional design, green screen time, and what it actually means to teach children to think computationally.
Why the kind of screen time matters more than the number of minutes, and how to give your child screen time that builds skills instead of just filling time. Our complete guide.
Read more →Five questions that cut through the "educational" marketing and tell you whether a coding app actually teaches, respects your child, and is worth installing.
Read more →ScratchJr, Scratch, codeSpark, Tynker, Kodable, and Loopz scored side by side on age, price, ads, and what they actually teach. Including where the free tools win.
Read more →We audited 11 popular kids' coding apps for ads, manipulative purchases, privacy red flags, and compulsion mechanics. See which apps are clean, and how we scored them.
Read more →The question isn't how much screen time. It's what kind. Here's why the green screen time movement is changing how parents think about children and devices.
Read more →Streak counters work. The data is clear. Here's why we removed ours anyway, and what we use instead to keep kids genuinely motivated.
Read more →Most educational apps are designed to be infinite. We made a different choice, and it's one of the decisions we're most proud of.
Read more →No leaderboards. No in-app purchases. No push notifications. No energy timers. Here's why each one stayed on the cutting room floor.
Read more →The first lesson in Loopz is embarrassingly simple. Here's why designing it that way was one of the hardest and most important decisions we made.
Read more →Two children each spend one hour on a screen. Cognitively, developmentally, the experiences could not be more different.
Read more →Not every app marketed as educational was designed with your child's development in mind. Five red flags and five green flags to look for.
Read more →"Educational" on the label means almost nothing. Use this checklist to cut through the marketing and evaluate what's actually inside.
Read more →The common answer is "as early as possible." The research says something more nuanced, and more interesting.
Read more →Socks before shoes. Cereal sorted by color. Your kid is already thinking like a computer scientist. Here's what that actually means, and why it matters most at age five.
Read more →Most children's coding education starts in the wrong place. Here's the case for concept-first programming, and why it produces better thinkers.
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