Teens are using emoji and secret lingo to find illegal drugs. How parents can crack the code
Social media has been a significant catalyst for teenagers questioning their gender identities today
Popular means that everyone knows you, but they may not necessarily consider you a buddy
Apple ‘Tracker’ Following Teen Visiting Disney World
Mexican Cartels Use Social Media to Recruit Young Americans, Border Patrol Veteran Says
Young people have 24/7 access to sites that are constantly telling them they should be depressed about it
Taking advantage of these tools is a key step in protecting our children. But the most important thing we can do for…
Fueled by isolation and social media, some youth rush toward gender identity as answer to distress
“Whoever you want to be, it’s yours to make on Instagram!”
“On the whole, I would say totally worth it,” he said. “I mean, I would do it again.”
because they isolate young people from their friends, study shows
‘Dangerous by design’ metaverse apps allow children to access immersive digital sex clubs
New study boldly claims there is a “direct association between celebrity worship and poorer performance on cognitive tests.”
Inside a dangerous TikTok trend that keeps sending kids to the hospital
When thinking about our kids and technology, it might be more helpful to think of it in terms of cost and benefits
Effective marketing promises remedies to our insecurities
The American Academy of Pediatrics and Canadian Pediatric Society recommends no more than 1 to 2 hours of screen use per day
Remember, Instagram is a corporation that puts its interests before its users
“The United States is facing an unprecedented crisis of overdose deaths fueled by illegally manufactured fentanyl and methamphetamine.”
Smartphone seems more like a drug draining the creativity out of the next generation
Teenagers are looking for answers: Am I worthwhile? What makes me worthwhile? How am I unique from others? Are those uniqueness’ good…
This course gives parents and caregivers strategies and insights to parent confidently in a technology-dependent world
Data from kids in 37 nations links this to use of cell phones and the internet
Twice as many children between the ages of 9 and 12 reported sending nudes or other Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (SG-CSAM)…
Kids who exercised more and used technology less during the pandemic had better mental health outcomes.
Using Instagram or Snapchat before age 11 was significantly related to more problematic digital behaviors compared to those who joined these platforms…
An attack on a disabled teacher that was recorded during a suspected TikTok challenge earlier this month
Teenage girls across the globe have been showing up at doctors’ offices with tics—since the start of the pandemic
“I quickly realize that my phone is broadcasting LIVE on Instagram. In my hand. While I am in the shower.”
Her parents fixated on her beauty and said ‘it seemed important to them both … that their daughter be perceived as beautiful’
Salazar, who had nearly 2 million followers on the platform, was loved for his lip-syncing and skits
A bombshell report in the Wall Street Journal shows that Facebook, which owns Instagram, is well aware of the teen mental health…
5 senators are demanding answers from Facebook
‘Social Dilemma’ star blasts Facebook for putting profits ahead of people: ‘This is catastrophic’
By Mark R. Levin. The widespread brainwashing of students, the anti-American purposes of Critical Race Theory
“Facebook is shaping the future of religious experience itself, as it has done for political and social life.”
By Jonathan McKee: Guiding Your Kids to Be Wise in a Digital World
To recreate a popular video in which someone uses flammable liquid on a mirror to draw a shape and then lights it…
“It has definitely been fun getting to have extra sets of grandparents. I plan on staying for quite a while!”
These findings come from a nationally representative survey of 1,502 U.S. adults conducted via telephone Jan. 25-Feb.8, 2021
TikTok Now Rivals Snapchat, Twitter
A popular social media trend that involves choking oneself until loss of consciousness
how we can take control of social media rather than giving it permission to take control of us?
Here are a few tips from GreatSchools.org to help manage your kids’s screen time
Romance is in the air…“expectations” of how young people are supposed to behave in intimate settings
Teenagers’ mental health is being damaged by heavy social media use, a report has found
Solicited her for sexual activity, and then traveled to meet and engage in sexual contact with the 13 year old victim
Seducing Our Daughters’ the impact transgenderism is having on girls
Like Snapchat snaps and Instagram and Facebook “stories,” Twitter is rolling out fleets—tweets that disappear after 24 hours
The latest study aggregates responses from 9,800 teens across the United States
This discussion brings up LGBTQ issues, Cash in this TikTok video chose to call it a sin
To combat China’s malicious collection of American citizens’ personal data, while promoting our national values
The single most important way to mitigate loneliness is for trusted adults to reach out and connect
We want to help make it easier for people to experience these moments of connection and happiness during a dark period
Danny a YouTube prankster. He is proud to have seen it catch on with young people who champion abstinence
It doesn’t take much time for the positive benefits to kick in — we’re talking 10 minutes outside in a space with…
“I’m happier because now I don’t have social media to give me high expectations of not only myself but everybody else around…
I’m an integrative psychotherapist and I work with
a time to give up useless words, gossip, rumours, tittle-tattle and speak to God on a first name basis
Unassuming victims are taking into jumping up before their feet are pulled away meaning they land on their heads and spines
I want to talk about all the reasons why we might be seeing this rise
Require our kids to shut down, shut off, and sleep in their beds without phones overnight
Survey of 1,000 parents revealed that 56% would rather talk to their children about sex and puberty than technology features, trends, and…
Teens…kind of trying to gain power and status in more materialistic ways
I’m sticking to my principles on not getting smartphones for my tweens — even though my child got lost in NYC
Among all social media trends, video dominates in terms of importance
California’s new bill would ban the sending of naked photos and lawbreakers may be fined up to $500
works by comparing a photo to a database of 3 billion pictures off Facebook, Venmo, YouTube and other sites
From prison because of good behavior
The trend started out on TikTok as more of a joke, but then the inevitable came
Girls thought they were in a relationship with a teen boy. It was a woman grooming them for sex.
Experts blame social media and celebrity diet culture as hospital admissions for under-19s suffering eating disorders DOUBLE in a decade
How can an increasingly sexualized culture co-exist with less sex among the consumers of that culture?
So, what should parents do about it?
Revealing what advertisers know about human nature and how they exploit it to make a profit
The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices 21 Tips to Wise Posting in an Insecure World
7 vital strategies parents and leaders can use to respond teenage girls’ stress and anxiety
Whether or not they personally experience anxiety and depression, 7 in 10 teenagers view both as major problems among their peers
Are you engaging your kids in these conversation?
And What Teens Wanted To Know About That
“It was hard for me to admit that maybe life without a phone was a better life for me.”
A list of 17 popular slang terms and the correct way to use them
It was 4 a.m. she had been on her phone for 13 hours. In three hours, she had to be up for…
“It’s shocking how these kids expose themselves to be liked or disliked,”
The Photobooth that we created will be unmanned and sit out in the lobby the 4th Tuesday of each month
pleaded guilty in federal court today, whom he met through the “Game of War” application on her cell phone, to engage in…
It emerges that Instagram is the social media platform with the most negative effect on the psychological state of young people
Book: boy‘s body Sport health and physical activity
A new study is warning parents that excessive screen time may be behind a stunning rise in children who need prescription glasses.
Nature Valley asked them (three generations) one simple question, “What did you like to do for fun as a kid?”
Teen suicide is the highest in history — 14.46 per 100,000 for young people between 15 and 24
83% use YouTube, 21% use Twitter, 38% use What’s App, 33% use Instagram, 35% use Facebook, 34% use Snapchat
Social media has made it easier than ever for predators to connect with children. He said that means parents have to be more…