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The Art of Listening – Connecting with self, others and nature
Eleanor Roosevelt once said great minds talk about ideas, average minds talk about events, and small minds talk about people. I wonder what Eleanor would say about today’s state of human conversation?
Acts of Kindness – Addressing the underlying cause of screen addiction
We are all addicted to screens, to a varying extent but this constant craving a device that no longer serves us begs further thought. All alone, separated from those we love, we’ve become misers holding onto a piece of plastic that gives us nothing but chaos and grief.
Playgrounds – The epicentre for child development, behaviour and learning
I just returned from Anahim Lake, a small community in the Chilcotin area of British Columbia and home to the Ulkatcho First Nations people. I would like to take this opportunity to share with you a journey toward child health and wellness that took place over the course of the past four years and comprised a number of community initiatives.
The profound consequences of AI’s attack on critical thinking.
When I read that Mattel had formed a partnership with OpenAI, I felt a profound sense of dread. As if the technology industry wasn’t making enough money on exploiting children, now they are embedding AI design into toys for toddlers.
THE BRIEF – Creating Sustainable Futures
No one would dispute the statement that healthcare and education are in trouble. Since the infiltration of screen-based technologies into every home, school, community and workplace setting, indicators for health, wellbeing and performance have plummeted. The ways in which we are raising and educating children with screens are no longer sustainable.
Ethics 101 – Don’t experiment on children
Nelson Mandela’s quote “There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children” gives me pause to wonder what he might say about our tech obsessed, screen addicted society today.
The Internet – We Can’t Make What’s Wrong, Right
If your child asked you if they could go to a place where they were going to learn how to harm themselves, for example learn how to cut, buy deadly drugs, be extorted sexually, meet pedophiles, choke themselves, suicide, bully others, kill people with guns and run over them with cars, give away their private data and in the process, become addicted to this place…would you let them go there? No!
Screen Overuse – Causal links to physical and mental illness inflate health care costs
Below letter was authored by pediatric occupational therapist Cris Rowan and emailed to all Canadian Health Ministers and British Columbia Health Authorities on July 28, ‘25.
Understanding proprioceptive and vestibular systems to optimize student attention and learning.
At this point in time, ALL screen use in homes and schools should be considered detrimental to child and youth development, behavior and learning.
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As a pediatric occupational therapist working in schools on the Sunshine Coast, I detected a rise in child developmental delays, mental health disorders and learning disabilities over 30 years ago.
Children with Addictions – Let’s pull our heads out of the sand and do something!
For the first time in the history of humankind, we have children with addictions. While children’s primary addiction is to screens (cell phones, tablets, TV, computers etc.
Comparison of Qualified Teachers/Clinicians vs. EdTech/AI
Mounting research shows extensive harm to children from screen-based technologies, as well as evidence of declining literacy and learning since the onset of education technology (edtech) and artificial intelligence (AI) in schools.
Are Wireless Devices Safe?
All devices that connect to the internet require either wired (ethernet cable) or wireless radiofrequency radiation to effectively connect to the internet. While government and the technology industry have stated 1G-4G devices and towers are safe for children, they have not extended this guarantee to 5G which is cumulative to existing devices and towers…
Happy Parent, Happy Child Summit
The Happy Parent, Happy Child Summit: From Overwhelmed to Empowered – The Parent & Child Connection Breakthrough is a free, transformative online event for parents who are exhausted, overwhelmed, and tired of feeling disconnected from the people who matter most.
Video games, social media and pornography – How they control us and what you can do about it.
The technology industry has two salient goals…power and money. Big Tech gains power over users by designing its products to be addictive and makes its money by selling user data. Once people are hooked, they can be manipulated and coerced by the tech industry in a variety of ways…