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Education

Parenting in the age of screens: Here’s what the experts do

Parents today struggle to set screen time guidelines. One big reason is a lack of role models.

8 years ago

Families gather in the Great Stair Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art for ArtSplash, a kid-friendly summer program that is having extraordinary success.
NewsWorks Tonight
Arts & Entertainment

Art Museum summer program caters to young Modernists

The Philadelphia Museum of Art's summertime Art Splash program takes cues from urban Modernism.

8 years ago

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With its artificial intelligence, My Loopy has seven toy-grade sensors that respond to touch, light, sound, proximity, temperature, and motions to learn from its user and their environment. (Kim Paynter/WHYY)
Science

‘My Loopy’ robot ‘comes to Earth’ to teach children how to write computer code

With its artificial intelligence, My Loopy has seven toy-grade sensors that respond to touch, light, sound, proximity, temperature, and motions to learn from its user.

8 years ago

Class of 2018 high school graduates Tamir Harper, Anthony Rivera, and Shania Bennett (left to right).
Radio Times
Education

The exceptional class of 2018

Guests: Tamir Harper, Shania Bennett, Anthony Rivera  TAMIR HARP ...

Air Date: July 6, 2018 10:00 am

Listen 48:55
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro.
Courts & Law

Clergy argue against quick release of child sex abuse report

Pa. Attorney General Josh Shapiro argued the report should not be delayed, calling it a matter of exceptional public interest.

8 years ago

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Community

Delaware toddler drowns in family pool

A 4-year-old boy drowned in Claymont Wednesday night. It was one of two pool-related incidents reported on the Fourth of July holiday.

8 years ago

Thirteen children from seven nations took the Oath of Allegience to become U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony at the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia.
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

America’s youngest citizens reflect on patriotism at Philly naturalization ceremony

“It’s just respecting your country, even if you don’t agree with everything that is going on or everything that is said," said Kayla Davis of West Philly.

8 years ago

Listen 2:48
A bill extending the statute of limitations on child abuse cases has struggled to make it through the legislature. (AP Photo, file)
Courts & Law

Pa. measure on child abuse attracts attacks amid legislative uncertainty

A proposal to retroactively extend the statute of limitations in child abuse cases in Pa. is getting renewed blowback from national Catholic organizations.

8 years ago

Alma, 11, and Yaretzy, 11, made bookmarks at Mighty Writers El Futuro in South Philadelphia Thursday. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
NewsWorks Tonight
Community

As immigration debate boils, Philly nonprofit sends books to detention center

With the help of a $3,000 grant, Mighty Writers is giving more than a hundred books to migrant children at the Berks County Residential Center.

8 years ago

Listen 2:12
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PlanPhilly
Health

Philly offers affordable housing to help parents regain custody of kids in foster care

In Philadelphia, not having a safe, stable place to live prevents parents whose children have been placed in foster care from regaining custody 40 percent of the time.

8 years ago

A young girl waits for care in a medical clinic. A growing number of citizen children of immigrant parents are losing out on Medicaid because their parents fear deportation. (Jonathan Kirn/Getty Images)
NPR
Health

Fearing deportation, some immigrants opt out of health benefits for their kids

"They are asking a lot of questions," she says. "They are investigating one's life from head to toe."

8 years ago

In this Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 file photo, a college student plays a computer game at an Internet cafe in Seoul, South Korea. On Monday, June 18, 2018, the World Health Organization said that compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a mental health condition. (Ahn Young-Joon/AP Photo)
Health

What makes something truly addictive?

A new "gaming disorder" classification from the WHO revives a debate about whether behaviors can cause the same kind of addictive illness as drugs.

8 years ago

Environmental risk inspector Marilou Yingling stands in front of years worth of files related to lead found in York homes. (Brett Sholtis/Transforming Health)
NewsWorks Tonight
Health

Lead poisoning home inspectors aren’t getting paid and some fear children are at risk

Though funding for lead testing has gone away, the problem hasn't.

8 years ago

Listen 5:00
Protesters at Rittenhouse Square where Vice President Mike Pence is attending a Republican fundraising event. (Bastiaan Slabbers for WHYY)
Politics & Policy

Hundreds of protesters picket Pence at Philly fundraiser, decry family separations

Hundreds of demonstrators assail vice president over policy of splitting up undocumented families at border.

8 years ago

The new play space inside Whitman library in South Philadelphia. (Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Community

Shh! This is a… jungle gym? Philly libraries remade for play

Three Philadelphia libraries now have "play-and-learn space," designed to bust up the old notion that libraries are quiet places.

8 years ago

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