Is digital technology bad for children? The debate over children’s interaction with digital technology has reached a fever pitch. At the forefront of this discussion stands Jonathan Haidt, a professor ...

Building positive connections with teachers and peers in the classroom can be critical to the mental health and academic success of children and adolescents. Yet a new national poll from The Kids ...

to a host of websites for children, some safe and others not so kid-friendly. My daughter is only 3 1/2, but she has already discovered the internet, with sites such as the Disney Princess page where ...

A major study, the first of its kind, has revealed key insights into the extent to which children under 3 years old have access to digital technology in the home, how they use it and how it supports ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why are little kids getting so much screen time that they need a detox? Still, the research—as well as dire warnings, issued by ...

Back in 2001, Steven Spielberg released an underrated scifi movie named A.I. Artificial Intelligence (yes, the title is a bit redundant). The movie, which loosely borrows from Pinocchio, tells the ...

In the age of technology and social media, children and adolescents are now less likely to be physically active. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), children are spending about ...

Nearly half of teenagers report being online nearly constantly, according to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center. And “screen-time” is pervasive among younger children, surveys show. There’s no ...