2021
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Social Media-lutions 2022
This year, social media continues to be popular among teenagers. As 2022 approaches, consider making a New Year’s social media-lution–a resolution around social media use–with your teen to help them use social media in ways that are healthy and fun!
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Children’s First Cell Phones: Parents’ Perspectives on Risks and Benefits
In this pulse survey about kids’ cell phone ownership, parents reported that connection and safety were the primary motivators for getting a child a cell phone. Notably, parents whose children do not have phones were more concerned about potential consequences than parents of children with phones.
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Real Risks & Benefits of Building & Gaming in Virtual Worlds
In this webinar, you’ll learn about all the things immersive gaming technology has to offer and what families need to be aware of before the play begins.
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Digital Wellness Lab Applauds Surgeon General’s Youth Mental Health Advisory
In October 2021, when the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s Hospital Association released a statement declaring the “worsening crisis in child and adolescent mental health” a national emergency, it was a familiar story.
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Community of Concern: Social media and youth mental health
In this webinar, you’ll learn about how screen time and social media affect youth mental health and ways to promote healthy technology habits.
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Building Social-Emotional Skills With Technology: How to Use SEL to Cultivate Digital Wellness
Throughout the past two decades, social-emotional learning has evolved into one of the most frequently talked about (and researched) topics within the field of education.
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Is Social Media the Tobacco of the 21st Century?
Social media, as former Facebook president Sean Parker famously acknowledged, is “exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology” by creating a “social validation feedback loop”. In a country where over 85% of adults, 84% of teens, and more than half (53%) of children own or have consistent access to smartphones, interactive media are available and insistent.…
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Silent Screams in Screens
In this webinar, you’ll learn about how to recognize, treat, prevent and talk to kids and teens about cyberbullying.
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Family Digital Wellness: When is the Internet a Problem?
In this webinar, you’ll learn about addressing and reducing the negative consequences of Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU), while helping children, adolescents, and young adults in your life adopt and sustain healthy lifestyles and behaviors.
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Back to School
In this webinar, you’ll learn about strategies for a successful back-to-school transition after a year of schooling and socializing online.
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Parents’ Perspectives: Summer Media Use and the Return to School
In our second Pulse Survey, parents reported that their children used increased amounts of media during the summer. Overall they saw this use as mainly helpful to their children’s social connections, well-being, and school readiness. In addition, children were both anxious and excited for this upcoming school year.
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Summer, Screens & School
In this webinar, you’ll learn about what we’ve discovered during the pandemic, and how families can best apply science-based tips for fostering healthy digital habits during the summer.
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Is my child’s relationship with screens healthy?
In this webinar, you’ll learn about Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU) – how to recognize it and respond to it in the young people you care for and how to foster healthy digital habits as a family.
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Taking the pulse: Kids’ media use during the COVID-19 pandemic
The Digital Wellness Lab surveyed real parents to find out how they feel about their child’s media use and remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the pandemic has made a big impact on the lives of all of us, school-aged children and teens have faced some unique disruptions…
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Parents’ Perspectives: Media Use & Remote Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Respondents of a survey said that in the past year, technology has changed the way children connect with others, both in and out of school. In addition, media use has had positive and negative effects on their children’s health and well-being.