Dec. 29, 2025
These darker days are well suited for deeper reads, and this week weāre sharing how to help kids grow up well in a screen-saturated world. A thoughtful
new book for tweens and teens takes on Big Tech with clarity and hope; itās a kind of āAnxious Generationā for the middle-school set.
And as more kids begin outsourcing their thinking to AI, a pressing question is emerging:
Whatās happening to their developing brains? We dig into the research on learning, cognition and the trade-offs parents should be paying attention to now.
On a lighter note, our annual list of
Seattleās top baby names is here, and as usual, it proves the Pacific Northwest marches to its own beat.
Wishing you a happy, hopeful start to 2026.
āĀ Kristen Russell, head of contentĀ
