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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Posts Tagged ‘video games’

Seize the play!

Grocery shopping at the Children's Museum of Phoenix. Photo by Karen Barr.

On any given day at the Children’s Museum of Phoenix, you’ll find toddlers riding trikes and preschoolers pushing child-sized shopping carts. You’ll see children climbing, reading, exploring, making art projects and interacting with hands-on exhibits featuring everything from flying scarves to rolling balls. But come next Friday night, you’ll be able to experience something entirely [...]

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Products of popular culture

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Yesterday, I went to an exhibition of video game consoles at the Arizona Museum of Popular Culture which is in the store, Arizona Popular Culture Experience, at Desert Ridge Marketplace. When I got the press release for the exhibit, I thought it would be a couple shelves of video games and a large store selling [...]

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New York Comic Con

After learning of a new graphic biography about the life of Jewish teenager and diarist Anne Frank, Lynn Trimble attends New York Comic Con with a whole new perspective.

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Video games and attention problems

Researchers found children who exceeded the 2 hours per day of screen time recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics were 1.5 to 2 times more likely to be above average in attention problems.

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I hate Mario Kart!

If I don’t share their interest in Mario Kart, what’s next? Suddenly, I can’t stand their music, don’t like their friends, don’t know anything about what interests them. They become goth, start smoking cigarettes to be cool, go off to college, get a slew of body piercings, bad grades, and stds and I have only myself to blame.

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