Tag: digital childhood
Digital erosion of childhood. Should we be encouraging children to take risks?
Keeping young children away from perceived risky activities such as outdoor swimming is damaging. At least that's according to education expert Dr Sandra Leaton Gray from the UCL Institute of Education. Writing in her book Invisibly Blighted: the digital erosion of childhood Leaton Gray says: "Heavily supervised young children of today may simply be more likely to drown…