A family sits in a crowded restaurant, and one of the parents hands their toddler a phone to play a game as the little one settles into a high chair. Mornings are a blur, so while mom takes a shower ...

I never give my 1-year-old my phone. I’m determined to raise a kid who doesn’t spend all their downtime on a device. So imagine my surprise when she recently got ahold of mine and started scrolling ...

Even though the parent liked their old-school TV, the kids bought them "the world's most frustrating smart TV" Virginia Chamlee is a Politics Writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE for three ...

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen. By Catherine Pearson Jean Twenge’s three teenage daughters ...

We’ve learned the hard way that without new laws to protect our children — especially in a world increasingly shaped by AI — Big Tech will ignore any ethical limits in pursuit of their bottom line.

Google, Meta and their Big Tech allies have stoked outrage on both sides of the aisle in a desperate scramble to derail the Kids Online Safety Act – and critics say it’s a cynical attempt to protect ...

How old do you have to be to start using an AI chatbot? In some families, children as young as kindergarten age are already engaging with the likes of ChatGPT and Gemini. That's according to a new ...

We support Gov. Kathy Hochul’s legislation to ban students from using smartphones and other internet-connected devices during the school day and urge state legislators to enact it. It’s about time the ...