A pediatric psychologist shares tips to help teens develop healthy habits around social media use and screen time.

Parenting teenagers has always been challenging, but today’s parents face an unprecedented dilemma: protecting teens from digital dangers while respecting their need for independence and social ...

University of Pennsylvania researcher Ran Barzilay is a father of three. His first two children received cellphones before ...

Does your child seek constant validation online, dramatize life events, and detail every moment as though they are starring ...

A generation growing up with algorithmic feeds is not suffering “brain damage,” but their attention, emotions and habits are being shaped in powerful ways. For many families, the first smartphone or ...

Alvin Thomas is affiliated with National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (Forum for Children’s Well-Being), Scholars' Action Network Yeqing Li does not work for, consult, own shares in ...

We are living through an age when kids don’t walk down the street alone, but they have full access to everything online. We ...

If you’re a parent, it can be easy to look over your teen’s shoulder and wonder what on earth is going on in their feed. One minute, they’re watching chaotic TikToks that seem completely random. The ...

Banning social media for teens sounds like a fix, but it’s not. Here’s why real solutions need to include more than bans to ...

Teens say collaboration works better than control. Parents often think they understand what their teenagers do online. Many ...

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