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Bill Gates Warns AI Could Reshape Childhood. What Parents Can Do Now

Artificial intelligence is becoming part of children’s everyday lives. It helps with homework, answers questions, creates pictures, writes stories and, increasingly, can even talk like a companion. In an essay...

Screen Habits Start Earlier Than Parents Think. What Should Families Build First?

Before parents count the minutes, experts say families should protect the routines that build early childhood: sleep, language,...

Technology in School Should Help Teachers, Not Replace Human Connection

In the age of AI, apps, tablets, and smartboards, the question is no longer whether technology belongs in...

Your Teen May Already Be Using AI. Here Is How to Talk About It

AI chatbots are quickly becoming part of teen life. Parents do not need to panic, but they do...

Who Answers When Social Media Harms a Child? A Washington Fight May Decide

As Meta seeks new legal protections and Congress weighs the Kids Online Safety Act, families are confronting a...

Are Smartphone Bans in Schools Enough to Help Children Focus?

School phone bans are becoming one of the most visible education policies of the digital age. From Virginia classrooms to national governments overseas, leaders...

Is It Really the Phones? A Closer Look at Teens, Technology, and the Stories We Tell

A New Yorker essay revisits the debate over teens, phones, mental health, and why parents should be careful with simple explanations. For about a decade,...

Norway to restrict AI use in elementary schools over learning concerns

New standards taking effect this school year would keep most pupils up to age 13 from using generative AI, while allowing supervised use for...