The younger children are when they get their first smartphone the higher the risk of depression, obesity and poor sleep habits.

School leaders are rebranding "social-emotional learning" as "character education" or other less controversial names, but teaching the same lessons.

ChatGPT can be tricked into writing a suicide note, designing a starvation diet for an anorexic or offering advice on how to hide intoxication at school.

Illinois will screen all students for mental health issues, despite evidence that universal programs school-based programs don't improve mental health or academic outcomes.

Programs designed to improve students' mental health made things worse in the long run, reports a study in England.

A young woman is suing "gender affirming care" providers for starting her on drugs and surgery at age 12.

Ninety percent of teachers in a NEA survey want their schools to ban cellphones in class, and 83 percent back all-day bans.

Britain's new Labour government plans to continue the ban on puberty blockers ordered by the Tories."We will always put the safety of...

Pixar's new Inside Out 2 is about dealing with puberty and growing up, writes Emma Camp on Reason. Inside Out, released in 2015, featured...

There's no reliable evidence that puberty blockers, hormones and surgery are the best treatment for children with "gender-related...

Phone-centered childhood is a disaster, writes Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic. In the early 2010s, "adolescents in rich countries traded...

New York City is offering free online therapy to teenagers 13 to 17 years old, reports Michael Elsen-Rooney on Chalkbeat. Teenagers can...

Schools are going phone free to remove distractions in class and encourage students to socialize in their free time, report Meg Oliver...

When Simon and Garfunkel sang "I am a rock, I am an island," they weren't thinking about gender or sexuality. But, nowadays, rock can be...

Chronic absenteeism -- missing 18+ days of a 180-day school year -- is way up, writes Ed Navigator's Tim Daly. Twenty-five percent of...

"School closures largely explain the deterioration of youth mental health" during the first wave of the pandemic, concludes a study in...

Teenagers wouldn't be so anxious, depressed and fragile if they'd spent more time playing outside with friends -- without adult...

A "dramatic mental health crisis" is challenging colleges and universities, writes Mary Dana Hinton, president of Hollins University, on...

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...