Posts Tagged ‘Kids’

Augmented Reality (AR) has made its way to elementary school. PBS Kids released a free app for the iPhone and iPod touch this week. The app is based on the PBS Kids TV show “FETCH!” which combines at animated dog (Ruff Ruffman) with real kids and science and math education.

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

More and more parents are keeping tabs on their children by using Facebook, and a recent study reports kids are becoming aware of their parent’s meddling into their social media activities. I find this statistic interesting: 11 percent of the parents surveyed use Facebook to snoop on their children.

Our Weekly Dose of Cute, pushed back a day due to the holiday, features five adorable videos including a pair of laughing babies, a 3 year old that loves the color pink, a funny puppy vs. corgi fight, and kids giving their perspective on Medicare. So sit back, relax and prepare yourself for cute overload!

Happy Monday, folks! It’s back to the daily grind, but we’ve got just the thing to help you start your week with a smile on your face—our Weekly Dose Of Cute!

Social networking sites can be useful to kids for socializing, enhancing creativity and developing technical skills, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics’ just released, first ever report on social media and children. They also can lead to cyberbullying, depression and exposure to inappropriate content, the report says. So what is a parent to do?

So now, we have a statistic called “underage social networking site users.” So, kids lie about their real age. A good guess is that many parents allow their children to “make believe” they are older.

Togetherville, a social networking website for children under the age of 10, has recently been acquired by Disney. Is this acquisition better for Togetherville or for parents?

What’s better than watching movies like ‘The Social Network’ and shows like ‘Jersey Shore’? Kids reenacting them! Here are our top 10 Kid Reenactment videos, from Kanye’s Tweets to Best Picture nominees and more.

It’s the beginning of an exciting new week and it’s time for the Weekly Dose Of Cute! Check out five adorable kids and babies videos after the jump.

While most kids are picking their noses and trying to dig holes to China in the backyard, a few special kids are honing their skills as musicians, dancers, and artists. We’ve put together a list of 10 amazing YouTube videos of talented kids that will blow your mind.