You haven’t screwed up your kids by letting them use social media. An expert has tips for what to do

In her new book, “Smartphone Nation,” social media expert Kaitlyn Regehr helps parents manage their digital media consumption ...
CNET

How You Can Use Tech to Keep Your Kids Safe This Halloween

If your kids, tweens or teens are old enough to carry their own phones, it may be time to upgrade to a tracking app (and not just for Halloween). These lightweight apps avoid being invasive but still ...
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Scanning technology is coming to detect child porn. Here’s what it means

Smartphones, social media and secret chat apps helped fuel an unimaginable internet flood of sexually explicit images of children, with more than 60 million such photos, videos and files reported ...
CNN

Kids are getting smartphones at much younger ages than many experts recommend. How to handle it

Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was published ...
New York Magazine

The Techno Optimist’s Guide to Futureproofing Your Child

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 ...
Wired

What Do Kids Actually Think About AI?

Ask an adult what they think about kids and AI, and expect to hear a strong opinion. Parents, politicians, experts—everyone has a take on whether young people should use AI, how to moderate their ...
CNN

YouTube will start using AI to guess your age. If it’s wrong, you’ll have to prove it

YouTube will begin guessing users’ ages using artificial intelligence on Wednesday, as part of an effort to prevent kids from accessing inappropriate content online. It’s part of a broader push to ...
Business Insider

When I was building my career, I relied on technology to keep my kids company. I realized I was losing them.

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