Thinking about getting your child a phone for the new school year? Learn what parents should consider from screen time and ...

Gabb makes kid-safe smartphones that have texting and music but no social media or internet. Parents can also monitor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book "Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is ...

Parents are suddenly flocking to landlines for their kids as they tire of screen time battles and grow leery of the effect of smartphones amid a mental health crisis.

It's funny how much media coverage is devoted to anything suggesting that phones might be ruining kids—and how little coverage goes to studies suggesting the opposite. So it goes with a new report ...

AT&T is the first and only carrier to launch a smartphone made for kids, providing more choice and control for parents as they navigate the complex digital world for their kids. For 60% of parents ...

Let’s be honest: the warnings are not wrong. But they’re also not enough. We keep yelling “Don’t do it!” — while the tech and telecom industries continue to innovate, market, and subsidize these ...

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Children who owned their smartphones fared better than kids who didn’t have one on nearly every measure of well-being, according to a recent study. Conversely, using social media negatively impacted ...

Anxious, depressed, isolated and worthless — that’s how the DeKalb County School District said its 91,000 students increasingly feel. From TikTok to YouTube, Georgia’s third-largest school district ...