Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University and teaches parents, students and teachers how to manage screentime. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is ...

LOS ANGELES -- Anxiety among children is a major concern as the coronavirus pandemic continues. That's why Callie and Leo Silva decided to write the book "Stay Home Superheroes." "We created it to ...

Over the past months, many countries have announced plans to restrict social media access for children and teens. Australia became the first to implement such measures at the end of last year, setting ...

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 ...

Parents are two to three weeks into the whole social distancing, distance learning thing and some parents may be pulling their hair out already. NASA and Crayola are here to rescue you. The space ...

As Australia’s ban on under-16-year-olds having certain social media accounts kicks in this week, debate on whether it’s a good idea or even legal rages on – both at home and overseas. Yet barely ...

Lockdowns. Social distancing. Shuttered schools and businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic and its sweeping disruptions set off a stampede of "what it's doing to us" research, focused largely on ...