At a time when it’s becoming increasingly difficult to log off, these companies are building better, healthier technology for kids before they’re old enough to form bad habits. Despite wide acceptance ...

If your kids, tweens or teens are old enough to carry their own phones, it may be time to upgrade to a tracking app (and not just for Halloween). These lightweight apps avoid being invasive but still ...

As many parents know from experience, today’s kids spend a lot of time online. While concerns about screen time are often focused on teens—unsurprisingly, as nearly half of teen participants in a 2024 ...

A group of leading major technology companies including OpenAI and Discord have raised more than $27 million for a new initiative focused on building open-source tools to boost online safety for kids.

In the last decade or so, media itself has become obsessed with the condemnation of technology and social media. A quick Google search yields dozens upon dozens of articles lamenting society’s ...

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen. By Catherine Pearson Jean Twenge’s three teenage daughters ...

Picture this: Your little one is strapped into their car seat, and you've got four hours of highway ahead. You could pack a bag full of juice boxes and hope for the best, or you could arm yourself ...

Walk into nearly any American school this fall and you’ll see a striking trend: phones are gone. Locked pouches. Classroom baskets. Outright bans. Three out of four U.S. public schools now prohibit ...

Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the implications of generative A.I.’s transformation of technology. Universities across the country are scrambling to understand the ...