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Chat GPT Is Trying to Normalize Its Use With Year-End Review Like Spotify Wrapped
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (248+ words) In an effort to appeal to younger audiences, Chat GPT just launched a new year-end review feature. Think Spotify Wrapped, but for everything you've searched in 2025 (yikes!). When I asked Chat GPT to give me my year-end review, it wrote…...
Roblox Just Introduced New Kids Accounts. But Will They Make the Platform Safer?
3+ hour, 40+ min ago (307+ words) The update introduces a more curated experience for younger players. According to Roblox, games available to users under 16 will now go through an ongoing selection process, which includes developer verification, extended content evaluation, and limits on experiences deemed more appropriate…...
Teens' Mental Health Looks Different in 2025. Here's What Parents Need to Know
6+ mon, 4+ week ago (608+ words) The conflicting findings are not only confusing, but leave parents of teenagers without an accurate snapshot of the environment in which they are raising their kids. In an effort to bring clarity to the confusion, She Knows spoke to the…...
A New Report Warns That Digital Culture Is Defining Boyhood " More Than Parents or Schools
6+ mon, 6+ day ago (1394+ words) When you think about who teaches boys what it means to "be a man," you probably picture parents, teachers, or maybe coaches. But a new Common Sense Media report, "Boys in the Digital Wild: Online Culture, Identity, and Well-Being," finds…...
'Benign Neglect' Parenting Is Back, But Many of Us Grew Up With It
1+ week, 3+ day ago (607+ words) I sometimes joke that I was raised on benign neglect though at the time, we just called it childhood. No one tracked our location. No one texted to check in. It was a time when we just figured things out…...
More Than Half of Girls Say Growing Up Feels Scary, But Here's What They Say They Need
7+ hour, 36+ min ago (335+ words) The survey, conducted by Wakefield Research, polled 1, 000 girls ages 5 to 13 across the United States, with additional representation from Black and Hispanic girls to better reflect diverse experiences. One of the most notable findings is that 85% of girls say they look…...
Busy Philipps Celebrates 'How Rad It Is' To Be a Teen Girl " But How Is She Navigating Raising Them?
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (797+ words) Busy Philipps is no regular mom. For the last almost 17 years, Philipps has been raising her daughters, 16-year-old Birdie and 11-year-old Cricket, while starring in hits like Cougar Town, Girls5eva, Mean Girls, and holding her own as one of very few…...
More Than Half of Teens Use AI for Schoolwork: "No Need for Research!
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (777+ words) Grown-ups can't seem to agree on artificial intelligence. It's either the tool that will streamline our lives " drafting emails, organizing schedules, helping with research " or the thing quietly eroding critical thinking, fueling misinformation, and rewriting the rules of school and…...
Teen Cannabis Use Linked to Psychiatric Disorders in Young Adulthood in Large New Study
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (305+ words) Now a new, large longitudinal cohort study adds another worry to the pile: It found that using cannabis in adolescence ups the risk of developing psychiatric disorders " particularly psychosis (like schizophrenia) and bipolar disorder " in early adulthood. Related story Why…...
How This Amount of Social Media Time May Be Hurting Teen Mental Health
2+ week, 6+ day ago (474+ words) As parents continue to wonder whether social media is truly harming their kids, research is mounting that it does. Now, a new study suggests the answer may be largely tied to how many hours they log online. The research, published…...