It's not easy being a parent, and tech hasn't really made it any easier. A clear example: Deciding whether or not your child needs their own phone. While most experts suggest keeping kids offline and ...

The beauty of the HMD Fuse is that it puts you in control of what your child can do or access on their phone, and it’s all ...

This might just be the best phone I've seen for young children. It brings all the simplicity and ease of use of a walkie-talkie, and entirely skips the bothers of apps and screens. The Messenger, from ...

USA TODAY Shopping offers tips on communication devices for kids and teens, including phones, smartwatches, tracking devices and walkie-talkies. Recommendations consider different age groups and needs ...

One of the hottest topics of conversation among parents right now is what to do about kids and phones. Increasingly, these conversations are dominated by stories of brave families who’ve gone ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. When Caron Morse’s 9-year-old daughter asked for a smartphone last year, her reaction, she told me, was unambiguous: “A hard ‘Hell no.’” Morse is a mental-health ...

As a parent of newly minted third- and fifth-graders who has worked in children’s technology and media for 20 years, I’ve watched as the conversation around smart devices has become ubiquitous on the ...

"You think they're not gonna be able to get around the parental controls?" Kylie joked on her podcast Kylie Kelce/Instagram Kylie Kelce is doubling down on her idea to get a "kitchen phone" for her ...

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 ...