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Lifestyle

Lifestyle covers the rest of growing up: sport and clubs, instruments and bands, friendships, first jobs, pocket money, travel and the slow arrival of independence. Pieces connect these to media where relevant and leave them alone where it is not. For young readers and the adults trying to be useful.

What movie, TV, and game ratings actually tell you
Lifestyle

What movie, TV, and game ratings actually tell you

Three separate voluntary systems label the screens in your home, each run by different people and each measuring different things. Here is who assigns them, what the labels mean in their own words, and where the research says they fall short.

Omar Rivera