If you are concerned about your kids staying up all night or spending their entire Christmas vacation playing Fortnite or focused on other screen-based activities, you are not alone. Spending […]

In this mobile infinite runner addition to the classic Mario Bros. franchise, Bowser has returned to the Mushroom Kingdom in hopes to kidnap Princess Peach and rule the land once […]

I have seen far too many kids in my clinical practice who are really smart, thoughtful, and expressive kids who can’t get their ideas into writing. They have amazing vocabularies […]

Do kids really learn from playing video games? Absolutely! Many kids are learning academic skills playing games and apps such as Brainpop, ABC Mouse, Noggin, and Adventure Academy, and studies […]

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, parents were very concerned about the amount of time their kids were spending in front of screens. In many first world countries, screen time was […]

Homeschooling is the newest challenge parents are facing with their digital kids. The coronavirus pandemic has made the United States into a nation of homeschoolers. Most of these kids are […]

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, I had noticed that an increasing number of my patients are being homeschooled. In the southern part of Rhode Island where I live, the majority […]

Stop, Breathe, & Think Kids is a meditation app for children. When the app opens up, the child evaluates themselves using emoji. Each emoji has a sub-set of emotions to […]

Football is the most popular television sport in the United States. This means that many kids watch live and televised amatuer, high school, college and professional football and observe their […]

How do thinking skills impact academic performance?

Executive functions, or thinking skills, are essentially self-management skills that rely upon the prefrontal cortex and connections to other parts of our brain […]