Molly Russell’s Story and the Fight to Make Children Safer Online
After his 14-year-old daughter died in 2017, Ian Russell looked for answers in the digital life she had kept private. What he found helped...
A Mother’s Warning: Social Media Can Be a Marketplace for Real-World Harm
Becca Schmill was funny and adventurous, and she was on her way to college to study psychology. She was 18. On September 16, 2020,...
When Scrolling Replaces Reading: A Parent’s Concern About Attention, Books and Teen Life
The change did not look like a crisis at first. A teenager got a phone. He still had books at home. He still knew the...
The Phone We Gave Too Soon
It often begins with one sentence. “Can I have a phone?” The child asks in the car, at the kitchen table, after school, or while pretending...
From Radio to Roblox: Why I Started 3A1Z Stories
A father's journey from a radio-only childhood in Afghanistan to raising four children in the age of Roblox, YouTube, social media, and AI. I grew...
The Hidden Account: A Mother’s Fight After Her Daughter Was Exposed to Harmful Social Media Content
At first, it looked like the kind of change many parents are told to expect as children grow older. A daughter becomes quieter. She spends...