Tag results for: parenting
Most US Teens Use Generative AI. Most of Their Parents Don’t Know
A fresh wave of anxiety about children and technology is cresting, with parents and pundits increasingly interrogating how kids use smartphones, social media, and screens. It hasn’t stopped...
OpenAI Messed With the Wrong Mega-Popular Parenting Forum
Think of any topic vaguely related to raising kids imaginable, and there’s probably a post about it on Mumsnet, the long-running, enormously popular, controversy-spurring UK-based parenting forum for...
Growing Old Online
Sometimes when I can’t sleep, I put the Twitter app back on my phone and scroll aimlessly. I’m trying to hurt my own feelings, and I’m always successful....
Banning Phones in Class? Not So Fast
A few weeks into my return to teaching part-time this spring, I paused my walk around the classroom to watch two young women in body-con dresses writhe in...
Nothing Is Protecting Child Influencers From Exploitation
Jackie Coogan, America’s first major child star, shot to fame in 1921 as Charlie Chaplin’s adopted son in The Kid. But at the age of 21, after earning...
What Adults Don’t Get About Teens and Digital Life
On a snowy winter day, we were in the library of a charter middle school in Portland, Maine. It was the first of many school visits where we...
