Adolescents spend an average of 70 minutes of their school days on their phones, new research finds. But parents can help ...

Parents everywhere wrestle with one big question. What is the right age to let a child have a smartphone? Tweens ask for one long before many adults feel ready. At the same time, researchers keep ...

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 ...

POLICE ARE NOW LOOKING FOR THAT SHOOTER. FIVE ON YOUR MENTAL HEALTH. NOW, A NEWLY RELEASED STUDY FINDS THAT KIDS UNDER THE AGE OF 13 WHO USE SMARTPHONES HAVE AN INCREASED RISK OF MENTAL HEALTH ...

researchers shared advice for families considering a first smartphone and discussed their most recent screen time discovery.

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 ...

Parents are saying "no" to smartphones for young kids. — -- Erica and Constantine Chigounis' daughter, Sophia, is in 9th grade and just turned 14. For her birthday, she was given a phone. And ...