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- ABC News The American Academy of Pediatrics says that children under the age of 12 should not have access to smartphones, tablets or other handheld devices. Parents should make sure that the devices they allow their children to use are age appropriate and used in moderation. It is important to monitor the usage of these devices to ensure that children are not using them excessively or using them for inappropriate purposes. Parents should also be aware of the potential risks of online predators and cyber-bullying that come with having a child online.
This summer CHILD-BRIGHT welcomed three patient-oriented leaders to the network. Marie-Brossard Racine and Stephanie Glegg are CHILD-BRIGHT’s newest Scientific Co-Directors. We are also thrilled to welcome Audrey Wubbenhorst to our network as Training & Capaci
After nearly a decade of devoted work and inspired leadership, Dan Goldowitz has stepped down as founding Scientific Co-Director of CHILD-BRIGHT and academic co-lead of the network’s Training & Capacity Building Program.
The CHILD-BRIGHT Network is proud to announce the creation of the Goldowitz Emerging Trainee Leader Award, granted in recognition of exceptional trainee leadership in pediatric brain-based developmental disability research. Established in 2025, the award was named in honour of Dan Goldowitz for hi
My mother stood in my kitchen last Thanksgiving, surveying the Ikea furniture and rental agreement on the counter. 'But you have a master's degree,' she said, genuinely confused. The implication hung there—a master's degree was supposed to mean something different. Something more. Beneath her disappointment, I finally heard what I'd been missing for years: not judgment about my choices, but grief over her own. The boomer generation made sacrifices their children often can't see because those sacrifices looked like ordinary life. They stayed in jobs they hated for decades. They delayed dreams indefinitely. They built their identities around provision and
Let’s be honest—parenting advice changes faster than the laundry piles up. What used to be considered “good parenting” can now feel a little…off. Over the past few years, I’ve had to unlearn quite a few beliefs myself. Not because my parents did anything wrong—they did what they knew—but because I started noticing how some old-school ideas simply don’t fit the kind of connection I want with my kids. If you’ve ever felt guilty for second-guessing the “that’s how I was raised” approach, this one’s for you. Let’s unpack eight outdated beliefs that may be quietly hurting more than helping. 1.
Some of what Boomers did as parents made their kids sturdy—walk yourself to school, fix what you can, call your grandmother. Some of it? It left splinters that their adult children are still digging out with tweezers. I say this with love. I’m a Boomer in my sixties. I raised kids, and now I’m watching my friends’ grown children sort through what we thought was normal. Here are ten habits many of us Boomers considered standard issue that our adult kids still wrestle with—and a gentler way forward for both generations. 1. “Because I said so” as a default setting