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.
Sport, music, friendship, first jobs, pocket money and independence, the parts of a young life shaping what a person later watches and plays.
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.
Children learn phone habits from what you do, not what you say — here's how to model the relationship with your phone you want them to copy.
Which parts of kids' fitness apps actually move children — and which features are borrowed from adult fitness culture.
What the evidence actually says about screens at the table — and how families run mealtime rules without mutiny.
How one nature documentary a week became the family ritual that actually sticks — and why co-viewing makes it educational.
A realistic look at what kids' coding camps actually deliver, what drives the price, and how to judge quality before paying.
Any camera, including a hand-me-down phone, is enough to start a real creative hobby — here's the setup and the skills.
Challenges, unboxings, and pranks — why children imitate what they watch, and which patterns deserve a parent's attention.
Designing a child's bedroom so sleep comes easily — and the screens charge somewhere else.
A kids' smartwatch can be a training phone or a small surveillance device — the settings decide which one you get.