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Screen addiction among children and adolescents is a fact. It causes problems of family life, lack of sleep, damages eyesight, lowers school performance ... But it is also literally a risk to physical integrity. This is demonstrated by the images that come to us from Russia. The subway cameras in the city of Yekaterinburg captured how a child walks towards the edge of the platform, while looking at the mobile screen.

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More and more schools and professors are willing to break with the traditional educational system, where students memorize the knowledge imparted by teachers in old-fashioned structured classrooms. And proof of this is the Hiperaula project, from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), which seeks to train the teachers of the new generations, focusing on active and collaborative learning through reconfigurable spaces.

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Eugenia López tells us on Facebook that she was walking quickly to the bakery where she works in the City of Córdoba (Argentina), but that she had to stop to take a picture of a child who did his homework concentrated, oblivious to the noise and bustle of the street and withstanding freezing temperatures. He explains that he wanted to show his daughters how fortunate they are to "be able to do their warm, comfortable, warm tasks inside the house, with the pencils they chose, with the tools they like best ...".

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Cover to breastfeed in order to "ensure that passengers of all backgrounds feel comfortable on board." This is how the Dutch airline KLM replied on Twitter to a woman's question about the company's policy towards breastfeeding. Interestingly, two days before this response another Californian mother denounced the same airline on social networks, after living an uncomfortable episode aboard an airplane when a flight attendant told her she should cover herself if she wanted to breastfeed.

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According to British media reports, the United Kingdom is considering banning the sale of energy drinks to children under 16, with the aim of "mitigating the possible negative effects associated with their excessive consumption by children." In an attempt to curb childhood obesity and protect the health of children and adolescents, there are already several countries that have adopted similar measures.

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Ollie Jones, of Kent (United Kingdom) passed away last year, with only four years, due to leukodystrophy, a rare genetic disease that affects the spinal cord, the brain and also the peripheral nerves. The boy was a big fan of Spider-Man, so his father, Lloyd Jones, requested permission from local administrations to be able to put an engraving of the famous superhero in his grave.

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