Children who post publicly online even occasionally are more likely than their peers to report feeling depressed and anxious and get too little sleep, according to the results of a new, large-scale ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich — One of the big arguments for the ban on TikTok is growing evidence that social media use can be harmful to kid's mental health with the U.S. Surgeon General going as far as to ...

TikTok staffers privately raised concerns over the wildly popular app’s impact on mental health — despite the company’s public claims that it’s safe for kids and teens, according to newly unsealed ...

Your children don’t need a ban on social media for teens under age 16 for you to remove their access to social media. We know it makes them less healthy and happy ...

Two people view a video on Tik Tok in Miami on Dec. 27, 2024. In Florida, a bill that bans cellphone use in elementary and middle schools, from bell to bell, recently sailed through the state ...

The best way to protect your child from social media's negative mental health effects is to engage with them about it. Parents are increasingly aware that too much time on social media can harm kids’ ...

If you are reading this, you are probably using a screen. Brightly lit screens inform our day, help us interact with family and friends, and can be a foundational instrument for the work we accomplish ...

"If a child has a video game problem, they are often playing it for several hours a day as opposed to a gamified digital mental health intervention that might be 20-45 minutes, three times a week," ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alison Escalante M.D. covers neurodiversity, pediatrics and parenting. The negative mental health effects of social media on kids ...

“Social animals are smart animals,” the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explained in his 2006 book, The Happiness Hypothesis. Once humans developed technologies like writing and printing, Haidt ...