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Help your kids beat the break-time boredom, while also keeping screen time to a minimum, with this great list of podcasts. From family-fun trivia to activity shows, interactive audio adventures, and exercises in movement and exploration, these podcasts are sure to provide hours of entertainment. With such a wide variety, you’ll find options that spark your child’s interests and whatever Spring Break plans your family may—or may not!—have. Make sure you check out Great Podcasts to Listen to as a Family and Great Podcasts for Tweens and Teens for more Spring Break listening inspiration.

Bryan Hearne never became a big star like Amanda Bynes, Ariana Grande or Drake Bell when he was one of many child actors in the Nickelodeon universe that dominated children’s TV in the late ’90s and early aughts.

Because of his outspoken mother, he ended up being one of the lucky ones.

Hearne, now 35, was let go in 2003 from “All That” — the kids’ sketch series that featured Bynes, Kenan Thompson and others — after two years.

Read more here. 

Federal authorities are investigating Meta Platforms for its role in the illicit sale of drugs, according to documents and people familiar with the matter.

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As state attorneys general, we have two primary duties: defending our states’ laws and interests, and protecting the rights and wellbeing of the people we were elected to serve. When Americans across the country faced urgent, and powerful threats to their health, safety, and prosperity, attorneys general across the nation have stood together to take them on:

• In the 1990s, state attorneys general stood up to big tobacco after years of false advertising and illegally marketing to children.
• During the housing crisis we took on the big banks that recklessly led the country into a massive economic recession.
• More recently we have worked together to hold big pharma accountable for the opioid crisis that has led to addiction and tragic overdose deaths across the country.

Now, as a mental health crisis exacerbated by social media giants seeking to addict and commodify the attention of children grows worse and worse each year, it’s time to take collective action again.

Our teens’ addictive social feeds heighten risks

Recent research demonstrates the devastating mental health effects caused by social media use, including increased rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and self-harm. Adolescents who spend more than three hours per day on social media face twice the risk of poor mental health outcomes. Addictive feeds — designed to harness personal data to curate users’ content that will keep them on the platform for as long as possible — have dramatically heightened the risk to young users’ wellbeing and made our children addicted to these social media outlets.

Read more here.

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Inform Your Representative about KOSA: Essential Child Protection Legislation is the Time

Please contact your representative in Congress to bring the Kids Online Safety Act to their attention. KOSA would establish protections for children from harmful algorithms and encourage safer online communications. With 65 cosponsors in the Senate, we are STILL advocating for its support as it may soon move to the House for consideration and debate!

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Poor Things? Let’s dig in. You’ll see what I mean.

“…Media can take experiences that are relatively rare and uncommon and make them seem far more common than they are in reality. That can be dangerous, particularly if in so doing, these stories are inadvertently encouraging behavior that is genuinely evil.

Such appears to be the case with the Disney Searchlight film Poor Things, starring Emma Stone which has been nominated for 11 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actress, and will be streaming on Hulu starting March 7^th, ahead of the Oscars.

Poor Things is a kind of Frankenstein tale about a pregnant young woman, Bella Baxter, who commits suicide by jumping into a river. A scientist-surgeon brings her back to life by putting the unborn, but still living, baby’s brain into Bella’s adult body, making her physically a full-grown woman, but mentally an infant.

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