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Dated items for young audiences and the adults nearby: game and show releases, platform policy changes, age ratings and school-year announcements.
The short version: more evening screen use tracks with later bedtimes and less sleep across most studies, but the research can't prove screens alone cause it. Here's what's solid, what's a recommendation, and what's still your family's call.
One-to-one device programs put a tablet in every student's hands — the questions worth asking are about filters, data, damage, and screen balance.
A growing share of teens treat podcasts as a normal news source — longer, conversational, and unregulated, which changes what parents should talk about.
'Brain rot' started as a joke about what endless low-effort content does to your head — and became Oxford's Word of the Year for 2024.
Party photos feature other people's children — and posting them well means asking first, tagging less, and deleting without argument.