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.
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Schools ban phones, but do the policies work?
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Would a warning on social media work to improve children’s mental health?
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.
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The Surgeon General Proposed Warning Labels On Social Media For Teens, And Experts Have Thoughts
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.
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Unsettled science on social media
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.
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LAUSD considering student cellphone ban
Dr. Michael Rich, founder of the Digital Wellness Lab, discusses on potential school phone bans and how phones can distract and tether kids.
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Instagram Is Not a Cigarette
Digital Wellness Lab research director Dr. David Bickham comments on the evolving understanding of social media’s effects on kids.
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Experts reflect on parenting in the digital age on Raising Me podcast
The Digital Wellness Lab’s Dr. Michael Rich gives insights into the developmental stages parents are guiding kids through even amid ubiquitous digital media.
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A surgeon general’s warning on social media wouldn’t be as powerful as good-old-fashioned parenting, experts say
Adolescent Media Use: Attitudes, Effects, and Online Experiences, a Pulse Survey from the Digital Wellness Lab, is mentioned for exploring self-reported effects of social media on adolescents.
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Surgeon general wants warning labels for social media apps
Digital Wellness Lab Consulting Psychologist Erica Lee comments on the mental health risks of youth social media use.
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Opinion: The warning parents need about social media
The Pulse Survey Adolescent Media Use: Attitudes, Effects, and Online Experiences from the Digital Wellness Lab is referenced.
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