Winnipeg school community hopes the key to kids' independence and confidence is child's play
A Winnipeg community hopes to roll the clock back a generation or two, when the sound of kids playing outside was prevalent and they did things without being tethered to adults or smartphones, with ...
Stop Panicking Over Teens and Social Media
Modern life is digital. Adults need to help young people navigate the costs and benefits, not launch bans and hope for the ...
West Seattle Blog2d
‘Let’s give our kids what they truly need’: West Seattle event on phones and youth mental health draws hundreds
By Aspen Anderson Reporting for West Seattle Blog Around 200 West Seattle parents and community members attended a discussion ...
The kids are not all right: Teens are overwhelmed by boredom and there’s one big reason why
The teens are not all right. Young people are more bored than ever before — and social media, apps meant for entertainment ...
Opinion - TikTok ban puts focus on China — how will Trump handle Taiwan in his second term?
Beyond the physical and psychological harm TikTok is causing to young people, the app’s content puts U.S. security at risk by ...
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Why Ordinary People Commit Evil... From Fact to Fiction
In the wake of World War II, a Nazi named Adolf Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem for his participation in the Holocaust. The ...
Sanders calls Trump’s tariff proposals a negotiation tool by ‘ultimate dealmaker’
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday she believes President Donald Trump's proposals for tariffs on key U.S. trading ...
TikTok is 'severely damaging' young people — unlike its Chinese equivalent, 'The Anxious Generation' author tells BI
Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, is very different and "much more pro-social," NYU professor Jonathan Haidt told ...
New Republic9d
Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?
How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness has set off alarms and panic from local school ...
TikTok is back—and it's harming kids 'at an industrial scale,' says psychologist
After briefly going dark in the U.S., TikTok is back online following an executive order. That's not good for young users, ...
Psychology Today13d
Casualties of the False Cause Fallacy in 2024
Why do so many Americans believe that immigration increases crime and that smartphones are to blame for the teen mental ...