As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, a flood of advice about digital technologies is adding to the demands on parents to manage family life, money, health, ...more

Individuals with disabilities make up 15% of the global population, or approximately 1 billion people. There are an estimated 93–150 million children with disabilities globally, ...more

As families grind into another school year with children spending large chunks of leisure and learning time in front of screens, parents are asking themselves ...more

How can we help young children make sense of long-term separations from friends or family who are self-isolating when we ourselves don’t know how long ...more

Digital technologies can offer new opportunities for participation and education but our recent experiment with home learning during the COVID-19 lockdown raised new concerns about ...more

Young people rarely get to talk about what they think about ‘sexy’ media – the common message is that sexualised media is always harmful and ...more

The Committee on the Rights of the Child, the UN body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by its State ...more

There are many concerns surrounding young people’s sexual communication online (or sexting), most of them coming from a protectionist position. Some concerns relate to the ...more

After 100 days of ‘lockdown’ few parents would deny the anxiety that exists over our children’s futures: missed schooling, no socialising, uncertainty over ‘the ...more

Teaching tech through play-based learning can help children to start exploring the digital environment and develop their skills and competence from a very young age. ...more

As students are returning to a very unusual school year, Jessica Kallin highlights for www.parenting.digital the experience of refugee students and their families for whom schooling ...more

The notion of inappropriateness is vague and subjective, yet often used by teachers, cyber safety educators, the media and other authority figures to highlight online ...more

With growth in smartphones and social media use in places such as the global south, we see the emergence of new challenges for the practice ...more

The current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is turning many social work practices on their heads and local authorities are making adjustments extremely quickly under significant pressure. ...more

When A-level grades were announced in England, Wales and Northern Ireland a few weeks ago, nearly 40% were lower than teachers' assessments. The grades were ...more

After a series of cautionary measures, New Zealand went into full lock-down (Level 4) in response to COVID-19 on March 25, 2020. In the often-repeated ...more

Finally, our book is out in the US, and almost in the UK and elsewhere. Forgive us a slightly different style of blog post, but ...more

For www.parenting.digital, Claire Bessant, Emma Nottingham and Marion Oswald discuss the impact of COVID-19 on family use of technology and the encouragement that families are ...more

Remember doctor Spock? No not the one from Star Trek, but the author of The Common Sense Book about Baby & Child Care. Since 1946 ...more

Looking back over the past six months, it is astonishing how everyday life has changed, and with it the role of digital technologies. The last ...more

You might have followed the controversy around 13 Reasons Why – a Netflix TV series about the 17-year old Hannah Baker and her decision to ...more

We live in a platform society. What we do online is immediately shared within a lucrative global data ecology and managing our “privacy settings” does ...more

When considering online risks and harms, it is important to account for the experiences and requirements of excluded populations of kids, rather than make assumptions ...more

Society has high hopes and considerable fears for the digital future. On the one hand, parents are told – get your children coding so they ...more

Encountering cyberhate is becoming a prevalent experience for children in Europe – at least one in five children aged 11-17 have witnessed such content. In ...more

Roughly 1.5 billion children globally are out of school due to the pandemic. As many schools turned to online learning, preliminary research already questions whether ...more

Parents are full of questions about the digital future: What’s good or bad technology? What helps or hinders their child and when? These are not ...more

When adults read a book with a child, they support the child’s language, emotional development, understanding of social relationships, fantasy, aesthetic qualities of images and ...more

The internet offers many opportunities to children but in some cases, it can be associated with serious risks of harm for the most vulnerable. Monica ...more

What happens when separating parents disagree about how their family will interact with others and with each other on social media? These disagreements often cause frustration, hurt ...more

Sonia Livingstone discusses the potential consequences of families’ reliance on technology during the COVID-19 crisis. She concludes that life under lockdown has the potential to ...more

As the COVID-19 pandemic creates an array of unprecedented pressures on society, and on parents and children, its impacts are likely to be felt intensely ...more

In this blog, we report on interviews with teens in East Asia, many of whom are urban poor. We asked what social media apps might ...more

 Digital media has added a layer of complexity to parenting: parents are managing multiple media environments for themselves and their children amidst relentless connectivity. This ...more

In this post Alice Hao Wu presents findings from her PhD research conducted in rural China into how grandparents and their grandchildren navigate the use ...more

Parents around the world are attempting to home school their children for the first time, as the COVID-19 pandemic forces school closures in more than ...more

As much of Western Europe, the US and Asia remain in various degrees of ‘lockdown’ to slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, ...more

Parents globally are concerned about teens staying up late and playing games with people around the world. But what do teens think? This blog reports ...more

Netflix's show 13 Reasons Why, which focuses on teen suicide, has been linked to increased rates of suicide in a recent US study. Despite such controversy, Netflix has ...more

This post explores research from the DigiLitEY project, an interdisciplinary group set up to investigate young children's engagement with emerging technologies in Europe. Kate Gilchrist discusses key ...more