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News Articles: teens

The American Phycological Association has a new guide to helping teens be smarter viewers of online content.

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  • Your Health

Here are 4 ways parents can help their teens be smart with screen time

With teens, it doesn't help to just say no to screen time. Instead, experts suggest teaching them to be smarter viewers of content, and learn to recognize how influencers and algorithms can manipulate them.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Katia Riddle
Teachers Emily Brisse, Mitchell Rutherford and Abbey Osborn have competed with smartphones for students' attention.

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  • National

Teens can't get off their phones. Here's what some schools are doing about it

Teens spend much of their days on their phones — many of them during school. Here's how schools and teachers are trying to fix that.

December 03, 2024
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By:
  • Claire Murashima
The U.S. Surgeon General identified an epidemic of loneliness in an advisory last year. Connections across generations can help both parties.

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  • Health

These matchmakers connect teens and elders. The friendships benefit both sides

Groups that connect elders and teens — both in real life and online — have a new sense of urgency in the loneliness epidemic.

November 14, 2024
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By:
  • Ashley Milne-Tyte
 A view of what two features look like for Instagram's Teen Account, including the ability to set daily use limits and permitting parents to view with whom their teen kids are messaging.

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  • Technology

Instagram makes all teen accounts private, in a highly scrutinized push for child safety

The social media app unveiled a new product for young users of the app that is intended to make the service safer for teenagers. The tools include making all teen accounts private and allowing parents to supervise activity.

September 17, 2024
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A new survey finds middle- and high-schoolers feel much less engaged in school than they did just last year.

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  • Education

Teens are losing interest in school, and say they hear about college 'a lot'

A new poll finds Gen Z teens are optimistic about the future but feeling less engaged at school.

August 29, 2024
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  • Cory Turner
The science is clear that teens can benefit from later school start times, but in Nashville and other communities, it's politically difficult to make the change.

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  • Your Health

Science says teens need more sleep. So why is it so hard to start school later?

Reasearch shows teens don't get sleepy until 10:45 or 11 p.m. But high school classes in Nashville still start at 7:05 a.m. "It's not a badge of honor," says the mayor.

November 09, 2023
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By:
  • Catherine Sweeney - WPLN
The Poet Life is guiding teens to use poetry to encourage others to stop smoking

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  • Agents for Change

The Poet Life aims to stop kids from smoking through the art of poetry

The Poet Life aims to stop kids from smoking, vaping and doing hookah, by using the art of slam poetry.

August 03, 2023
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  • Leah Fleming

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  • Health

How to help young people limit screen time — and feel better about how they look

New research found teens and young adults who even briefly cut time on social media gained self esteem. Try these 5 tips to help them — and yourself — improve screen-life balance.

February 27, 2023
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  • Allison Aubrey
Nearly two years after the FDA issued a policy denouncing the marketing of fruit-flavored vape juice and other vape products to young people, the products are still widely available in stores. But experts hope that could be about to change.

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  • Health

The chase is on: Regulators are slowly cracking down on vapes aimed at teens

The advent of vaping revived nicotine addiction among young people after a dramatic decline. The FDA seems poised to at last yank some products aimed at teens from the market. Will it work?

November 29, 2022
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  • Yuki Noguchi

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  • Mental Health

Paying for mental health care leaves families in debt and isolated

A youth mental health crisis and a shortage of therapists and other care providers who take insurance are pushing many U.S. families into financial ruin. But it's rarely acknowledged as medical debt.

October 19, 2022
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Writer and health educator Marni Sommer is co-author of <em>A Girl's Guide to Puberty & Periods</em>, which aims to help young people ages 9 to 14 understand the changes that happen in puberty and what to expect when.

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  • Health

Opinion: With abortion bans on the rise, kids need to know more about menstruation

Today, even one missed period could have serious implications for a young person's life. But how late is late, and when is pain or a heavy period a medical concern? Many preteens don't know.

September 17, 2022
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By:
  • Marni Sommer
Snapchat is rolling out new parental controls that allow parents to see their teenager's contacts and confidentially report to the social media company any accounts that concern them. A child lies in bed illuminated by the glow of a cell phone.

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  • Technology

Snapchat's new parental controls try to mimic real-life parenting, minus the hovering

Snapchat's Family Center lets parents see whom their teen is contacting, but not their messages. Parents can also confidentially report accounts that concern them, without their child's knowledge.

August 11, 2022
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  • Raquel Maria Dillon
Linnea Sorensen attends Schaumburg High School in Schaumburg, Ill. Now that Illinois allows students to take up to five days off per school year for their mental health, she can stay home when she feels "not fully mentally there."

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  • Mental Health

More states are allowing students to take mental health days off

While a growing number of states are trying to address the increasing mental health crisis among youths, many schools are woefully short of therapists and the budget to hire them.

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Giles Bruce
Linnea Sorensen attends Schaumburg High School in Schaumburg, Ill. Now that Illinois allows students to take up to five days off per school year for their mental health, she can stay home when she feels "not fully mentally there."

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  • Mental Health

More states are allowing students to take mental health days off

While a growing number of states are trying to address the increasing mental health crisis among youths, many schools are woefully short of therapists and the budget to hire them.

June 10, 2022
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By:
  • Giles Bruce
Children play a virtual reality game a Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Live Site set up on February 07, 2022 in Beijing, China.

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  • Technology

Facebook will block kids from downloading age-inappropriate virtual reality apps

Sister app Instagram is also launching new parental controls, as the social media company faces pressure to address safety risks to kids in virtual reality.

March 16, 2022
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
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