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Kids

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Your Kid Wants to Start a Business: Here’s How to Help

You will walk out of this event knowing exactly what to say the next time your kid pitches you their… Read More

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How to Talk to Your Kids About Money at Every Age

​You’ll leave this lecture with many ways on how to help your kid/teen acquire financial literacy skills through action. ​🔔… Read More

Tin Can launches program to help schools and neighborhoods go smartphone-free together

Wednesday’s launch comes as parents across the country have been organizing collective efforts to delay smartphone adoption — a movement built on the idea that individual decisions only go so far. Read More

Seattle schools’ new cellphone rules are in effect — what it means for different kids, and why now

For years, the rules around cellphones in Seattle Public Schools depended largely on which school — or even which classroom — a student walked into. That ended today. Read More

Littlebird takes flight: Startup ships its wearable kid tracker, now with Amazon and Walmart ties

Founder and CEO Monica Plath has spent the last two years overhauling Littlebird’s technical DNA and its premise around screen-free technology suitable for schools. Read More

‘Designed to be addictive’: Study finds teens spend more than an hour per day on phones at school

The findings add to the ongoing argument made by teachers, parents and policymakers that has led schools and districts around the country, including some in Seattle, to ban phones during school hours.  Read More

Tin Can dials up another $12M to meet soaring demand for landline-style phone for kids

Since launching its flagship product earlier this year, the Seattle startup quickly went “viral,” sold out its first two production runs and built a near-six-figure waitlist. Read More

Delivery drivers in diapers? Amazon starts ’em young with toy van for kids in new holiday catalog

The $46 rideable blue van with the Prime logo on the side includes little packages inside. Read More

Well, hello! From landlines to ‘dumb phones,’ these startups are dialing up new options for kids

Answering the startup call is not always as literal as deciding to build a new type of phone. But for… Read More

I made the call to get my kid a smartphone — here’s how it’s going, and why it makes me kind of sad

Quick, take a picture of me — you’re looking at the hero of Christmas! Better yet, let’s have my 6th-grade… Read More

How do I delay getting my kid a smartphone? Doctor behind ‘Screenagers’ films offers advice

I’m lucky to be here writing this. If it’s possible to be eye-rolled off the planet, I nearly suffered that… Read More

With new AI sidekick ‘Genie,’ startup vets aim to create a safer online experience for kids

In the debate over devices, screen time, online safety, and the appropriate age for young people to be online, Darius… Read More

This wearable toddler tracker, invented by a mom, aims to put parents’ minds at ease

A new tracking device will let parents know when their kids run away from a caregiver at the playground, where… Read More

Amazon Glow makes video calls more immersive, with projected and interactive space for kids

Anyone who has struggled to keep kids engaged with distant relatives via traditional screen interactions has certainly felt that strain… Read More

Report: Amazon is namely to blame as parents stop naming kids Alexa

“Alexa, STOP!” How many times have you shouted that after unintentionally waking a voice-enabled Amazon device? Now imagine being the… Read More

Russell Wilson and Spencer Rascoff back MOJO, an app to help parent coaches find fun in youth sports

A search on YouTube for “youth sports drills” returns an endless scroll of every type of practice workout you could… Read More

Back to the ‘Future Innovators’: 5 years later, kids adjust to an evolving and turbulent world

Five years ago, budding 11-year-old Seattle scientist Rebecca Yeung was launching a homemade spacecraft high above Earth. The exploits with… Read More

That’s smart, and cute: Friends create stuffed animals to dress up Amazon and Google speakers

That smart speaker in your home could serve as the base for another smart — and adorable — idea if… Read More

Amazon lets developers build premium Alexa content for kids with new in-skill purchasing feature

Amazon will let developers build premium Alexa content directed at kids with an expansion of its in-skill purchasing feature. The… Read More

Amazon adds $250K to fund it created for Seattle students, increasing access to summer programs

Several months after announcing a $2 million grant to aid Seattle school students with the creation of the “Right Now… Read More

What makes kids see technology as ‘creepy’? Fear not, a Univ. of Washington study seeks answers

It’s one thing to be scared, as parents, about some of the technology our kids are using. Distracting a child… Read More

LEGO Lassies, a team of girls from Seattle suburb, ride robotics success to world championships

The LEGO Lassies, a team of sixth-grade girls from Kirkland, Wash., just keep racking up wins in FIRST Washington robotics… Read More

Native American robotics team from rural reservation chases tech dreams at GeekWire Bash

The town of Nespelem, Wash., located on the Colville Tribal Reservation about 4 1/2 hours northeast of Seattle, is home… Read More

Little girl tries repeatedly to get Alexa to play song, before mom launches cute ‘Baby Shark’ attack

One of these days, cute Alexa videos will probably jump the proverbial shark. We’re not there yet, because we need… Read More

Echo Dot

Stormy Daniels, Santa and marijuana: Amazon cleans up Alexa’s answers to certain kid questions

We know kids have always said the darndest things, but in 2018, with the growing ubiquity of voice assistants in… Read More

Kids and phones

Put down your devices and be a kid while you still can: Advice for graduating 5th graders, and all of us

My 11-year-old son’s transition from elementary school to middle school will bring with it plenty of big changes. There will be… Read More

Zigantic

Teen entrepreneurs find Zigantic success and will pitch their business plan in global competition

Forget big success. Zigantic success seems like a cooler measurement. Zigantic is the name of a company started by three… Read More

Teens on phones

New research finds 95% of teens have access to a smartphone; 45% online ‘almost constantly’

Our kids are growing up behind the screens of their smartphones. What they’re looking at and how often is the… Read More

Baby

Amazon’s Alexa is everywhere — but the name is dropping in popularity for actual human babies

Don’t ask Alexa about recent trends around the most popular baby names in the United States — Amazon’s virtual assistant… Read More

Google Doodle

Google picks Seattle third grader’s doodle as Washington state winner in annual contest

A Seattle third grader’s colorful doodle has been recognized by Google as Washington state’s finalist in a competition looking for… Read More

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