But what if phones are not actually all that bad for kids? A new study from the University of South Florida is challenging long-held assumptions. “Many of my colleagues and I on our study team ...

“All vapes carry risks, but when you combine nicotine with gaming—especially in a product that looks like a toy or a phone—you’re adding multiple layers of appeal, especially for kids and ...

Shoes for Kids is the largest KRQE Cares initiative, which helps children in Title I schools receive a new pair of shoes. KRQE Cares is holding a phone bank fundraiser for its Shoes For Kids ...

It's funny how much media coverage is devoted to anything suggesting that phones might be ruining kids—and how little coverage goes to studies suggesting the opposite. So it goes with a new ...

In a world where mostly young people are glued to their cell phones, the new policy of Baltimore City Public Schools to keep phones and students apart during the school day is going to be ...

Shoes for Kids is the largest KRQE Cares initiative, which helps children in Title I schools receive a new pair of shoes. KRQE Cares is holding a phone bank fundraiser for its Shoes For Kids ...

She still had some latent anxiety over not having a phone until she was 14 years old. Now a senior in high school, she has a private Instagram account, but without a particularly active online ...

After two months of this, Zhi dropped out. The inciting incident? His phone was confiscated. At the time, I hadn’t considered how cellphones might be linked to the dropout rate. Yet after a year of ...

Overall, 70% of the 11 year-olds surveyed had their own phones, and many had them before age 9. The researchers learned that kids who had their own smartphones scored higher in all areas of well ...