Media Literacy

Below you will find the gift of a book excerpt from The Opt-Out Family: How To Give Your Kids What Technology Can't. The excerpt is the complete Chapter Four: …

My take on examining shooter’s families: I think it’s great to report what happened in a shooter’s family…as long as a reporter takes a trauma-informed…

Here’s how to watch out for “baloney” in arguments. The media is flooding us with misinformation. How do we manage it? It is helpful to understand what…

As rates of chronic disease among children have skyrocketed over the past few decades, pediatricians have increasingly looked for solutions beyond the clinic.…

Kindred's Contributing Editor and FCL board member, Michael Mendizza, responds below to the American Academy of Pediatric's new screen time policy statement,…

So you think you're informed?  Done your due diligence? "What if the reality you found was false? A carefully constructed narrative by unseen special…

The Facts: - Facebook Manipulated 689,003 Users’ Emotions for a Week for Questionable “Science” Research - 42% of new mothers and 26% of new fathers…

From the makers of the documentary, Miss Representation, comes the record of this year's treatment of women in the media.  How women's body's are…

The summer I was twelve, a group of preteen boys in Plain City, Utah started a tree house feud. My cousin explained the details of the conflict while we…

Children learn about the world through comparing and contrasting relationships between things. They learn to “be still” when they are told to “stop wiggling.”…