Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?
Parents punishing children on social media
New feature called Nametags that lets you create a special image that people can scan with the Instagram Stories camera to follow…
A coalition of more than 20 consumer advocacy groups contends that YouTube is collecting and profiting from the personal information of young…
“The takeaway here is that parents should not treat parental control apps as a magic bullet to keep their teens safe online,”
On Netflix, a Growing Wave of Shows for and About Teenagers
58% Of Parents Concerned About Negative Health Effects In Children Using Virtual Reality
Apple’s new iPad may be aimed at schools but it’s also a great deal for consumers.
Teen needed to wake up for church on Easter. His mother tased him
WITH ACCESS TO more audiences, channels, today’s kids can achieve stardom before graduating high school
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R. Kelly’s ex-girlfriend alleges singer ‘trained’ 14-year-old girl to be his ‘sex pet’
For those unfamiliar, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is said to be 50 times more powerful than heroin
“People don’t have the attention span anymore to listen to whole albums,” he says. “The album used to be a journey, and…
From Washington D.C. to Paris, young voices resound in protest against gun violence
When a child breathes in secondhand smoke, they breathe in thousands of chemicals, just like the smoker does. This puts them at…
Keeping your “elbows off the dinner table” may now be replaced by “take your phone off the table.”
A new genre of porn, Deepfakes, is growing in popularity… and it’s scary
38% regretted drinking, 32% regretted a sexual encounter and 11% said they regretted drug use
College students’ annual rite of debauchery during spring break continues despite towns’ attempts to curb it.
‘What’s the point of making her wait?’ mom says
More Americans have been killed in Chicago alone than in the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
Everyone has it, she whines, even the kid whose mom is an FBI agent/social worker/pediatrician/nun.
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Pro-Life Students Launch Nationwide Tour to Defund Planned Parenthood
Noting that modern kids want to see shows that mirror the people in their lives. “Multicultural, authentic and diverse,”
Facebook asks users: should we allow men to ask children for sexual images?
Chicago-area police are fighting a losing battle to stop gun battles from erupting during gang members’ funerals
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It’s a popular e-cigarette system that looks a lot like a USB flash drive
They’re usually running from a situation they believe can’t be solved by staying at home
Birth Year Guidelines Set For How To Identify Generations
The Saenz brothers ordered the killing in retaliation after she called out the gang at school and on social media
She gouged out her own eyes, now she wants to help keep people away from drugs
3 Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps cadets killed in the Florida school massacre have been awarded medals by the US Army
He established the Graham Youth for Christ, which found moderate success holding “crusades” across North America and in Britain
But somehow no one at the FBI connected the dots or shared information about Cruz with the agents who might have stopped…
O’Connor wrote that he wanted the death count to be as high as possible so that the shooting would be infamous
Tennessee Hemp Industries contends that the products were legal, with CBD derived from hemp, not marijuana.
The movie, which earned $25 million and finished second at the box office this weekend,
Anthony Perez, 11, died after he managed to push his friend to safety
Morgan Geyser, 15…for stabbing a classmate in 2014 in an attack aimed to please the fictional horror character Slender Man
Force field support both android and Apple products
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“I don’t have a kid, but I have a nephew that I put some boundaries on. There are some things that I…
Activist use photo of disabled girl to promote eugenic abortions
Study of sexting among 12- to 18-year-old girls, Sara E. Thomas of Northwestern University analyzed 462 stories posted,
The Orange Is New the Black star, 45, graces the February issue of Cosmopolitan South Africa, making her the first-ever openly transgender…
Find out what this app is all about and what to watch for
Teens are eating them as part of a YouTube challenge. Here’s a look at the trending challenge and why it’s so dangerous.
Will Ferrell Is a Phone-Obsessed Dad in Funny Device-Free Dinner Campaign
80 percent of women feel worse about themselves after looking at beauty ads, and 42 percent of girls in grades one through…
How and Why Did These Snowflakes Appear?
The first step toward resisting the pull of digital products is recognizing the tricks they use to keep you hooked
There are some places where devices just don’t belong
70% of parents want their children to spend less time watching electronic media
Here are six free conversation starters to use during dinner
If You Do 19/29 Of These Things Then You’re Addicted To Instagram
Be concerned, and do something about it
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Helping teens turn off in a world that’s ‘always on’
Police have charged five juveniles with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and other offenses
“I go on it and there’s nothing but people saying mean things. One comment ruins your day.”
Then there’s the type who only remembers to buy a gift the night before, and barely puts in any effort at all
What parents need to know about it
Learn how to set a passcode, block apps, share media, and more
A way to protect computers from accessing inappropriate content on the internet
Disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked the worst crisis in American Catholicism
Eventbrite’s nationwide research of millennials
Suburban LA mom busted for running multi million dollar pot business
Did An 8-Year-Old New Jersey Girl Hang Herself After Seeing Ashawnty Davis’ Story?
The marijuana Christmas tree will ‘light up’ the room
These are the top YouTube videos that went viral in 2017
Facebook is opening up to children under age 13 with a privacy-focused app, “Messenger Kids,” that lets parents download the app on…
Since the age of 10, Joseph Hayden Boston had molested dozens of other children in different cities where he’s lived
Disney Channel to Feature LGBTQ Storyline in the New Season of ‘Andi Mack’
HuffPost “could be incredibly influential for kids who are soaking up social cues about what it means to be a boy or…
So, basically, having no friends sucks and having bad friends can screw things up, but having good friends rocks
Movement calls on parents not to give their children smartphones until 8th grade
He is trying to break a world record of 700,000 Christmas cards sent to his house, to raise awareness for organ donation
Ninth-grader wanted in connection with grandmother’s death detained trying to enter Canada
The sexually violent content of these types of video games has affected the behavior some individuals in the video game community
Officials at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency failed to spot Eve Paterson’s mistake when she applied for an updated licence
…and this is what happened
The results shocked me
Small towns and suburbs ill-equipped to fight back
“We salute you”
A new study warns of a strange twist in which kids anonymously post hurtful messages
Japan has the highest suicide rate of any Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nation, with more than 20,000 people taking their own…
Here’s who made this year’s cut
‘Confusing’ and ‘frustrating’
We’ve created an environment that fosters anxiety rather than resilience.
What Parents Can Do
The power of talk in a digital age
If it spots something fishy, whether your kid created it or received it, it sends you a real-time alert. Cannot view the picture
Put down your phone and get back to your life
You will consult your phone about 80 times a day, or almost 2,400 times a month, about 30,000 times a year
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