A group of tween girls opened up to ABC News' T.J. Holmes. — -- Tears and questions of family trust poured out when kids agreed to reveal to their parents what they're really doing on their ...

Technology is all around us – so much so that it's hard to get away from it. Anymore it seems almost everything we do on a daily basis involves logging in to an electronic device. We can check the ...

For the last few years, psychologists and social media experts have been sounding the alarm on the harmful effects of excessive screen time. In his 2023 report "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and ...

Technology is so ingrained in our lives that most children today are "digital natives." Indeed, they might "speak" digital before they even learn a language, and digital natives are often asked to ...

Once upon a time, children fought for control of the remote to the sole family television. Now the choice of screen-based content available to kids seems endless. There are computers, tablets, phones ...

Nearly half of teenagers report being online nearly constantly, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. And “screen-time” is pervasive among younger children, surveys show. There’s no ...

It’s a common scene on public transport. A parent holds a mobile phone showing noisy cartoons to their young child. The pair ...

Video content—whether viewed on cellphones, laptops, or interactive whiteboards—has become so ubiquitous both inside and outside classrooms that educators may not stop to think about the effects on ...

Statistics from 2015, pre-pandemic, approximate that 7.7% of U.S. children ages 13–17—nearly 1 in 12—have had a disorder related to voice, speech, language, or difficulty swallowing. However, a recent ...

Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today they don’t talk back in a child’s imagination — they talk through built-in AI chatbots.