States ban them in schools. At home, parents should too.

The days of flip phones that only allowed you to text and call are over, and now a study done by Secure Data Recovery says ...

Kids are given a smartphone or tablet and they spend more and more time on it. They consume immoral and harmful content that warps their understanding of the world and encourages them to be self ...

Yet research suggests it’s not just a good idea for kids to put their phones away while in class — they shouldn’t bring them to school at all. Some 97% of 11- to 17-year-olds use their ...

In 1950, the heyday of outdoor free play, more Americans lived in central cities than suburbs. But as cars came to rule our ...

While it’s shocking that children would be allowed to take smartphones into school change rooms at all, I’m struck by the irony of the situation. These kids were likely given smartphones by th ...

As many kids head back to school this year to more strict cellphone bans, some of the biggest pushback against removing smartphones from classrooms comes from parents. “What if there’s a ...

A majority of students admit that they are distracted by their phones during class. Getty Images/iStockphoto America’s children are hurting. Behind in school after pandemic closures, many ...

We also offer a guide to the best ways to track your kids (if you want to), the best parental controls, and the best first phones for kids. What you need to know before giving your kid a phone ...

That’s part of the reason why smartphones and social media can feel even more like drugs to kids than they do to grownups, says Mass General adolescent psychologist Stuart Ablon, who recently ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Parents who used screens more had children who used screens more, and this behavior could be hindering their kids’ language development, new research shows.