May is Mental Health Awareness Month, writes Frey India, but it's more like Marketing Pills to Girls Month. She was inundated with...

But, Mom, everyone else has a smartphone. Parents are trying to say "no" to smartphones for elementary and middle schoolers, but it's...

Social media is endangering the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, warns Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in a 19-page...

Worried about the teen mental health crisis, nine states and a number of major cities are considering mandating later start times for...

Can a high school put on Oklahoma without guns? The Theatre Guild at an Ann Arbor (MI) high school revised the classical musical days...

Not long ago, teen-age boys dreamed of buying a car and "roaring away from school during lunch period, with a girl riding shotgun, on our...

Desperate for entry-level workers, employers are pushing states to ease child-labor laws to let teenagers work longer hours, at younger...

Screen time is very bad for kids, argues Michel Desmurget, a French neuroscientist, in Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for...

Dropping SAT/ACT requirements at elite colleges could make ambitious teenagers even more anxious, writes Derek Thompson in The Atlantic. ...

Liberals are the most depressed among the growing number of sad teenagers, writes Matthew Yglesias on Slow Boring. Teenage girls are...

Fifty-seven percent of teenage girls felt "persistently sad or hopeless" in 2021, reports the Centers for Disease Control. That's double...

Happy people are kind to others and to themselves, says Laurie Santos. The Yale psychology professor is offering a free, six-week course,...

Exercise and sports -- at least one hour three times a week -- are a natural anti-depressant for teenagers, according to an analysis of...

Parents' concerns about their teenagers' social media use focuses on access to explicit sexual content and time wasting, writes Risa...

Seattle Public Schools is suing social media companies, reports Julie Calhoun on King 5 News. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and...

Zidaan Kapoor, a math-loving 15-year-old, coped with his anxiety about severe food allergies by creating a "fight fears" app for other...

Americans are socializing a lot less, staying home alone a lot more, writes economist Bryce Ward in the Washington Post. That's true for...

Throughout my newspaper career, I asked young people about their career goals. There was a time when the high achievers wanted to be...

Playing -- especially child-directed play outside with friends -- is how kids learn, writes Jackie Mader on the Hechinger Report. Playing...

More transgender and gender-neutral teenagers are having "top surgery" -- double mastectomies -- to make their bodies conform with their...