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Once upon a time, kids roamed free, going from yard to yard, playing with the neighborhood kids, organizing their own games, and coming back at dinnertime totally wiped out. Today, between screen time, school, organized lessons and sports, homework and a parental fear of letting children out of sight, this kind of free play has mostly gone out the window. What's gone out with it is a whole spectrum of growth and development opportunities, from communication skills and physical health to innovation and creativity, which all play big roles in shaping our children for a positive future.
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Few of us in North Carolina are immune to occasionally losing an hour to mindless scrolling on our phones and devices. After all, it's the nature of social media and the internet: an endless series of rabbit holes full of breaking news, TikTok videos, shopping, and Insta updates we didn't know we needed. But, for some, those technological time warps aren't just occasional, they're a daily, or even hourly, preoccupation. When does an innocuous pastime become a problematic addiction? And what do we do about it?
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Distracted driving is defined as engaging in any activity that takes your attention away from driving: It can be considered manual, when you move your hands from the wheel; visual, when you focus your eyes away from the road; cognitive, when your mind wanders to other tasks; or any combination of the three. Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT), the world's largest telematics provider, just released its 2022 U.S. Distracted Driving Report, and the results are staggering, with distracted driving levels at their highest point since the pandemic's onset. "Over the past two years, distracted driving has been like a pandemic within a pandemic, increasing at alarming rates and changing drivers' behaviors as the pandemic wears on. As more drivers hit the nation's roads, this intensified distraction will put even more people at risk," says Ryan McMahon, vice president of strategy at CMT.
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Your son or daughter headed to college will most likely need computer equipment, cell phones and sometimes tablets.
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