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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new qualitative study of families experiencing homelessness suggests public service systems need to do a better job of working with parents to support homeless children. The study also identifies key barriers limiting children's access to support programs, such as unrealistic eligibility requirements and a failure to make parents aware of existing programs. …

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Children routinely interact with people they don't know online and respond with caution when approached, but they want tech companies and governments to do more to keep them safe according to preliminary research findings released on Safer Internet Day. Following workshops with 597 children and young people aged…

Raising a kid (or two… or twelve) must be one of the hardest, if not the hardest, things out there. And even if you give it your best, things might still not turn out the way you had hoped.Well, parents and offspring of Reddit are sharing their bits and pieces of wisdom in response to the question what aspects of your parenting journey do you wish you could’ve changed? after having given their all, yet the kids turned out less than desirable in terms of compassion and being a good person.Scroll down to see what folks…

When he was growing up, recalls Julian Borger, it felt as if his family “had painted layer after layer of tasteful off-white over the top of something garish, more visceral and unsettling”. His difficult and dissatisfied psychologist father Robert had never managed to overcome “the refugee’s curse” of being “from two places and none at the same time”. His grandmother Erna, when invited over, “would typically arrive late and… insist on making Viennese food from scratch, unpacking her plastic shopping bags on the already…

Virtual reality (VR) headsets are increasingly popular among adults and children. They are part of extended reality environments, which “enable ever more realistic and immersive experiences”.VR provides entry into computer-generated 3D worlds and games with different environments and interactions. Sometimes this is loosely referred to as the “metaverse”. The majority of VR headsets have a lower age limit of 10–13 years due to safety concerns of extended reality technologies in general and VR headsets in particular. But…

Beth Mauder/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeawaysThe Roomba Combo j9+has made its way into my rotation of robot vacuums -- and let me tell you, I'm very impressed. It's sleek and has a modern look and feel, and iRobot went out of its way to fix the shortcomings of the previous Combo j7+. The most notable feature is the Clean Base's Auto-Fill Dock, meaning the robot can simply go back to the docking station whenever it needs to refill its clean water tank.Also: The best robot vacuum mops you can buyThe Combo j9+ is meant to…

Devolver Digital I’ve played a whole lot of puzzle games in my life, but I can safely say that I’ve never played one as pitch-black as Children of the Sun. Published by Devolver Digital, the newly announced Children of the Sun is an unholy hybrid between a shooter and a spatial reasoning game. It follows a lone wolf with a sniper rifle on a bloody quest for revenge against an evil religious cult. He has to take out swaths of zealots one bullet at a time. It’s as dark as video game premises get, but one that’s steeped…

Meta announced on January 9 that it will protect teen users by blocking them from viewing content on Instagram and Facebook that the company deems to be harmful, including content related to suicide and eating disorders. The move comes as federal and state governments have increased pressure on social media companies to provide safety measures for teens.At the same time, teens turn to their peers on social media for support that they can’t get elsewhere. Efforts to protect teens could inadvertently make it harder for them…

Publisher Devolver Digital has announced a new game by developer René Rother, a stylish sniping adventure called Children of the Sun. Headed to PC later this year, Children of the Sun puts you in the boots of The Girl, a sniper looking to eliminate The Cult and its enigmatic leader. The twist here? The Girl only has a single bullet per level, but she's also armed with a few abilities to make that projectile more deadly than an entire warehouse of ammo. One shot is all you need, as the bullet can…

Credit: MART PRODUCTION from Pexels Do music pupils in primary school suffer from performance anxiety? To find out, researchers at three Quebec universities studied 164 children aged 9 to 12 enrolled in an intensive music program at their school, and they discovered that the girls were more anxious than the boys. The researchers—Catherine Tardif, a…