If kids and parents know that the school is fully present in the form of well-developed social and emotional learning programs, informative parent education sessions and safe spaces for kids to approach trusted adults when problems arise, then our digital kids have a fighting chance to navigate the uncertain, at times treacherous and often relentless waters of digital media.
Today, he writes, the Father of Waters has become "the world's largest plumbing project," home to industrial projects and jumping fish from China, but it flows much as it always has: "as patient as gravity, as relentless as water".
Subsidised power encourages relentless pumping of water, so water-intensive crops are grown in drought-prone areas, diminishing water tables.
It's a landscape of relentless sun and little water, where the fields look like empty lots, scattered with gravel.
Except that we've now had a few years' worth of headlines about tax-dodging companies, casino bankers, spectacular delivery failure on public service contracts, and relentless price rises for water, energy and transport driving more citizens into poverty.
I cried, not just for him, but for all the evil we had seen: the mass graves, the rape victims, ethnic cleansing, the sewer in East Timor where a dead man, purple and swollen, floated in dark water, the relentless, constant misery.
Soldiers are helping to lay down sandbags outside the Pingewood substation a few miles from their barracks in Reading - in an attempt to halt the relentless progress of flood water.
Soldiers help to lay down sandbags outside the Pingewood substation a few miles from their barracks in Reading in an attempt to halt the relentless progress of flood water.
Prisoners all break -- under drugs, sensory deprivation, no sleep, water boarding, relentless interrogation.
According to the incumbent congressman, who is also a climate change denier, the key problem facing California farmers is "extreme environmentalists" who have tried to depopulate the land by depriving residents of water with "relentless determination".
"The 3D is so relentless that my eyes watered from two hours on," she said.
