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Jonathan Haidt is the godfather of the low-tech parenting rebellion. Now he’s concerned about a new threat lurking.

A student uses their cell phone after unlocking the pouch that secures it from use during the school day at Bayside Academy in San Mateo, Calif. on Aug. 16, 2024. Senior Correspondent Russia ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — In Greystones, Ireland, kids get their first smartphones when they are 13 years old and are about to enter what we would say is seventh grade. Can parents tell a ...

Zach Mangino, a rising senior at Wilton High School in Connecticut, spent most of the last school year undistracted by text alerts and TikTok videos, thanks to the town’s Board of Education decision ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. One common explanation for why children spend so much of their free time on screens goes like this: ...