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Playgrounds in Los Angeles provide endless entertainment for kids of all ages. Remember the days of busted swings and boring ...
Martin Cooper changed the world when he pioneered the portable phone, which weighed four pounds at the time. What's next?
From his home in Del Mar, the inventor of the mobile phone, now 96, watches. Of one thing Cooper is certain: The revolution has just begun.
Through his work, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt found that "a majority of parents wish social media apps didn't exist." ...
The school transitions get me every time. One minute, I’m excited my kids are growing older—we have real conversations, we ...
If you’ve been following the conversation around kids and screens, then you’re probably familiar with New York University psychologist Jonathan Haidt. But just because Haidt is one of the most ...
"This study…does NOT show that smartphones are beneficial to children," Jonathan Haidt told me on X last week. He was responding—in a somewhat baffling way—to my post about a new survey of ...
What Jonathan Haidt Thought When He Watched Adolescence “The internet is just not a good place to let your child roam free 24/7.” By Olga Khazan ...
For answers, I reached out to Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at NYU and the author of The Anxious Generation. For years, Haidt has been begging parents and schools to prohibit smartphones until ...