Nicole Powell, Clinical Research Specialist at the Digital Wellness Lab, presents to parents on how help their kids to develop good digital habits.

Dr. Michael Rich, founder of the Digital Wellness Lab, explains the developmental benefits of boredom.

Dr. Michael Rich of the Digital Wellness Lab is quoted from his recent conversation with Axios about the complexity of raising kids around screen devices

The Digital Wellness Lab’s pulse survey, Adolescent Media Use: Attitudes, Effects, and Online Experiences, is referenced, highlighting that parents and kids may well have different perspectives on tech use.

The Digital Wellness Lab’s Dr. Michael Rich provides a wealth of best practices to help kids learn to use smartphones as they need to while staying healthy and well.

Adolescents report body-image risks from their own social media use as elucidated by Adolescent Media Use: Attitudes, Effects, and Online Experiences, a Digital Wellness Lab pulse survey.

Digital Wellness Lab director Dr. Michael Rich concurs that phones should not be active distractions in schools but points out that kids will need to learn to use phones in healthy ways as useful tools.

Research Director Dr. David Bickham of the Digital Wellness Lab explains that, unlike tobacco, social media platforms have both positive and negative effects on kids.

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is cited as using The Digital Wellness Lab Pulse Survey, Adolescent Media Use: Attitudes, Effects, and Online Experiences, and Lab director Dr. Michael Rich cautions that social media can have legitimate benefits, unlike smoking.

Dr. Michael Rich, director of the Digital Wellness Lab, is cited, advising that children should learn to use phones and social media as the tools they are.