Ben and Erin Napier's daughters have never used — or even held — a smartphone. As a result, they're "probably a little too judgmental" when they see other kids glued to screens.

Ran Barzilay, a psychiatrist and researcher at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, won’t be letting his 9-year-old son get a ...

California will require every school district in the state to establish a policy limiting or banning smartphones on campus ...

Jonathan Haidt and Catherine Price, having literally changed the world with their 2024 bestseller The Anxious Generation, are ...

Two of the proposed initiatives continue a fight on AI chatbot rules that began during the last legislative session.

The state Senate Education Committee advanced a bill requiring that public schools adopt policies prohibiting cellphone use ...

A table full of young men watched for a moment before continuing to build. Pieces of uncooked spaghetti, marshmallows, paper ...

Psychologist Eli Stark-Elster discussed a new explanation for why children spend so much time on their screens and how it may ...

A road trip might give the impression that you spent eight hours glued to your phone when it was just using a maps app. But ...

Dear Annie: I am starting to feel like my whole life is lived through a screen, and I am ashamed to admit how much control my ...

Time indoors looking at screens can cause eyeballs to elongate, leaving kids nearsighted for life.

For years, the debate over teens and screens has been defined by uncertainty. Parents, teachers, doctors and policymakers have argued over whether phones and social media were truly harming young ...