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 and advises parents, students and teachers on how to ...

Raise your hand if you’re overwhelmed by all the technology your kids have access to and worried about what it might be doing to them. If your hand is up, you’re certainly not alone. Last month, the U ...

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A few days ago I talked to Ava, an Indiana fifth-grader, on the phone. I mean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Technology is evolving quickly — often faster than parents can keep up with, let alone teach their children how to safely navigate ...

There's an abundance of research that shows technology is harmful to both kids' mental health and their ability to learn. The debate over how technology and screens are impacting kids has raged for ...

Children worldwide spend more hours than ever with digital devices, raising urgent questions for parents and educators about how to balance the benefits of technology with the risks to well-being. The ...

Many parents feel that their children’s increased use of technology and high exposure to social media make parenting more difficult than it was only a couple of decades ago. Most parents have a sense ...

According to Internet Matters' 2024 Children's Wellbeing in a Digital World report, parental anxiety over children's screen time has reached unprecedented levels. A staggering 63% of parents now ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Imagine a six-year-old Sam carefully positions her myFirst Camera Insta 20, her tiny fingers deftly adjusting the angle to capture her ...

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 ...

Spring break is around the corner, and every parent knows the challenge of keeping kids entertained without resorting to handing over their smartphone for an endless scroll of prank videos. While ...