A few days ago I talked to Ava, an Indiana fifth-grader, on the phone. I mean the phone phone — Ava’s dad recently installed a landline for her, and she chatted with me using the handset, sitting in ...

Researcher Emily Goodacre is exploring how AI-powered toys impact kids. Here's what she wants parents to consider.

Walk into nearly any American school this fall and you’ll see a striking trend: phones are gone. Locked pouches. Classroom baskets. Outright bans. Three out of four U.S. public schools now prohibit ...

This story originally appeared in Kids Today, Vox’s newsletter about kids, for everyone. Sign up here for future editions. A few days ago I talked to Ava, an Indiana fifth-grader, on the phone. I mean ...

Millennial and Gen Z Parents seem to be tested in ways that previous generations have never encountered regarding technology. The question isn't whether kids will eventually use devices but which type ...

There's a lot of talk about how to monitor screen time for kids. But for kids to have healthy relationships with technology ...

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 ...

Ask a parent today what they worry about, and many will mention screen time. Teens can’t put down their phones, TikTok becomes pervasive by sixth grade, and is my kid really doing homework on their ...

This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. Julia Wise, a mother of three in Boston, published an essay last February that articulated a new kind of parenting ...

A new study by Scholastic, a children's book publisher, shows that kids would read more books if they had Kindles or iPads. That, at least, is how the study is being reported. Of course, what the ...