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Teens can make positive use of their phones, but they’ll always need guidance. Nothing about teens is “set it and forget it,” and that’s especially true of teens and their smartphones. Even if your future adult is well-behaved and never breaks the rules, and even with parental control apps keeping an eye on the big picture stuff, the developers behind the apps they love may have different ideas about what “the rules” are. Here’s how to […]

Many parents of teens feel that once their teens get a smartphone, the device quickly becomes almost a new part of their bodies. Some teens seem constantly glued to a screen, even when they should be sleeping, eating, or studying. And unless you’re constantly looking over their shoulders, it can be hard to know what exactly teens are doing on those screens. How do teens really use their phones, and what should you be doing […]

For teens, getting a driver’s license and the keys to the car for the first time can be an exhilarating experience. Many teens see the ability to drive solo as an important rite of passage. Parents may also see driving as an important milestone for their teen, but it’s often a frightening one as well. It’s well known that inexperienced teen drivers are more likely to have accidents than most other groups of drivers.  There […]