The holiday season can mean festive lights, shopping for your children's gifts, and more time using technology.

Social media platforms are everywhere, and most children and teens have access. Many indicators suggest social media use can ...

Throughout this series, we've explored how artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping childhood, examined how it might undermine creativity and critical thinking in schools, and looked at the essential ...

Once upon a time, children fought for control of the remote to the sole family television. Now the choice of screen-based content available to kids seems endless. There are computers, tablets, phones ...

The cover of "10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World" and author Jean Twenge. (Courtesy of Atria Books and Pam Davis) For parents raising their kids in the age of phones, social media and the ...

Imagine growing up as a child in this brave new digital society where video calls with loved ones, online homework assignments, gaming, or social media have all been normalized and expected to stay ...

It’s a common scene on public transport. A parent holds a mobile phone showing noisy cartoons to their young child. The pair ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jacquelyn Harverson is affiliated with the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. Louise Paatsch receives funding from Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence ...