A psychologist shares seven ways parents can support tweens and teens through the unstructured stretch of summer.
Summer brings freedom, but for parents of tweens, teens and young adults, that extra unstructured time can also bring extra worry. Psychologist Rochelle R. Robinson says the season is a meaningful window for parents to check…
For more than two decades, parents were told to keep kids recreational screen time under two hours a day. That guidance is now officially gone.
In January 2026, the American Academy of Pediatrics retired its longstanding hourly framework in favor of a more nuanced policy that asks families to weigh online activity within the broader…
Wireless headphones reshaped how we consume media. Now researchers and everyday people are questioning what gets lost when the audio never stops.
When Apple AirPods landed on the market, the reaction was split. Many people found the idea of tiny wireless headphones excessive, a solution to a problem no one had. Within a few years,…
For a generation that grew up with smartphones in hand, the pull of a glowing screen has never been stronger. Now, a new survey is putting real numbers to something many have quietly observed: a meaningful slice of Gen Z is trading real-life intimacy for endless social media feeds and many of them aren't even…

