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Kids Who Use Social Media Are Falling Behind On These Two Vital Skills, Finds Study

But even the lowest users of social media, kids who used it just a single hour a day or less, still scored lower, too, by an ...
The Conversation

It’s not screen time that matters, it’s what you do and when you do it – new study

What if the problem with social media isn’t just how much we use it, but when? A new study suggests that scrolling ... This finding challenges the current policy obsession with screen time limits and ...
The New York Times

She Started the Debate About Kids and Phones. Now She Wants to End It.

The researcher and author Jean Twenge has a prescription for the harmful effects of screen time on children. If only parents would listen. By Catherine Pearson Jean Twenge’s three teenage daughters ...
NPR

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

Preteens using increasing amounts of social media perform poorer in reading, vocabulary and memory tests in early adolescence compared with those who use no or little social media. That's according to ...