Summary: Welcome To Future Forward, I’m Steve Rosenbaum, And I’m Gene DeRose. Today - a show in four parts. Part One: Addiction, Teens and Social Media. Part Two: Video Games - Are They Really Dangerous? Part Three: Apple. Are they losing the education market to Chrome books? And Part Four: Sex - How the web is changing intimacy for Teens. So - lots to cover, let’s dive in - starting as we do each week with Loving and Hating. Kids and Technology: Hard Questions About How We Raise A Techno Teen Chapter 1: Addiction & Social Media Your Kid’s Phone Is Not Like a Cigarette https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/kids-technology-addiction-screentime.html What parents should do instead of worrying that smartphones will ‘destroy’ their kids https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2018/03/27/take-heart-parents-screens-arent-necessarily-destroying-your-kids/?utm_term=.25030ddaa281 The real danger for kids today isn’t technology — it’s psychology https://aleteia.org/2018/03/21/the-real-danger-for-kids-today-isnt-technology-its-psychology/ Is Instagram safe for kids? https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/feature/social-networks/is-instagram-safe-for-kids-3673570/\ Chapter 2: Video Games: It's True: Violent Video Games Are Totally Sick https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/03/10/if-violent-video-games-caused-mass-shootings-we-would-all-be-killers/#66d82e904d2b Are video games bad for your kids? Not so much, experts now believe http://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-video-games-parenting-20171110-story.html Should parents worry that their kids are playing Fortnite: Battle Royale? https://www.independent.ie/life/family/parenting/should-parents-worry-that-their-kids-are-playing-fortnite-battle-royale-36702133.html Chapter 3: Hardware & Apple Apple highlights existing parental control features on new Families page https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/apple-creates-families-page-highlighting-existing-parental-control-features/ Kids Expect Apple To Meld Creativity And Education, Says Its Retail Chief https://www.fastcompany.com/40550815/kids-expect-apple-to-meld-creativity-and-education-says-its-retail-chief Apple reveals new $299 iPad at education-themed event https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/apple-education-event-in-chicago-tim-cooks-speech.html Chapter 4: Sex Why you need to talk to your kids about 'sextortion' https://www.desertsun.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/03/28/why-you-need-talk-your-kids-sextortion/467375002/ The Problem With Watching Porn and Playing Video Games — For Girls http://time.com/5215906/women-video-games-porn/
