It might finally be time to set those parental controls. New research suggests that social media isn’t just feeding your kid the latest memes — it may actually be messing with their brainpower. The ...

Nobody’s perfect. But a massive new study out of Japan just gave us more reason to think about the examples we give our kids and whether all that extra screen time costs them more than we realize.

As a parent, I know how easy it is to use screen time as a way to keep my kid busy — whether it’s TV, learning apps or FaceTime with family, it may buy me a few minutes. I’m not alone: A new study ...

There may be a link between social media use during early adolescence and lower cognitive performance, a new study suggests. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or ...

Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves. By Ellen Barry As ...

An eight-year Finnish study found that children who spent more time on screens tended to show better cognitive processing as teenagers, challenging common assumptions about screen use. Researchers say ...

Wondering how bad smartphone use is for kids? A new study suggests too much screen time at certain ages can make kids ...

It's funny how much media coverage is devoted to anything suggesting that phones might be ruining kids—and how little coverage goes to studies suggesting the opposite. So it goes with a new report ...

I’ve always thought this was just a personal character trait (one I’ve labored hard to change over the years). But perhaps I was wrong. New research has found that perfectionism is steadily rising ...