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How to Help Kids Navigate Online Dieting Advice
While it’s hard enough for adults to resist the allure of online diet advice, the challenges for kids can be even greater. These experts offer thoughts for talking to your children about what they’re seeing on social media.
7 Ways to Spot Misinformation on Social Media
On social media, separating fact from fiction isn’t always easy. Use these tips to help cut through the noise.
Taking It All In
A reminder about being present, courtesy of a phone-free trip to the Grand Canyon.
How to Stop Doomscrolling
We all do it, especially in these trying times. Here are four tips to stop doomscrolling — and improve your mental health.
4 Ways to Help Kids Change Their Cellphone Habits
Are your children glued to their smartphones? Here are a few ways to help them reclaim their time and focus.
18 Ways to Break Your Cellphone Habit
Feel like your smartphone is controlling your life? These strategies can help you set it down and reclaim control of your time.
How Do I Protect My Privacy Online?
Private browsing, strong passwords, and VPN software are some of the steps you can take. Beyond that, government policy is needed to protect consumer privacy.
How Do I Play Video Games More Mindfully?
Here are two tips to prevent video gaming from becoming a time-suck.
Unhack Your Smartphone
Keep your relationship with your device healthy and mindful by turning it into an ally rather than an adversary. Here are three easy smartphone-addiction hacks.
Just Say No to Children’s Screen Time
Why Silicon Valley tech execs limit their own children's screen time.
Does Too Much Screen Time Cause Tunnel Vision?
As our habitual focus has narrowed to small screens, our brains have acclimated to that limited view, resulting in a dulled capacity for seeing beyond a limited perceptual field.
15 Ways to Outsmart Your Smartphone
Here are tips to avoid being sucked into digital life — and to embrace real life.
How Can I Excuse Myself from Group Text Messages?
There are a variety of polite ways to deal with excessive group messaging, says an expert.
The Living Experiment: Astroturfing
When powerful industries and political interests push fake “grassroots” movements, real people suffer. Here's how to resist internet trolls.
The Health Risks of Tech Addiction
Here are four ways digital devices undermine your health and wellbeing.
How to Break Free of Tech Addiction
Learn how to regain control of your devices so they don't control you.
Creative Inspiration: Manoush Zomorodi
Journalist Manoush Zomorodi shows how exchanging your smartphone for moments of discomfort can boost creativity.
Do Smartphones Undermine Short-Term Memory?
The research around smartphones and memory is complicated, but many studies have shown that writing things down improves comprehension.
How Can I Get My Partner To Put Their Cellphone Down?
Expert tips on how to create a phone-free zone in your relationship.
Virtual Shift
Editor in chief Jamie Martin on turning off her email — and reconnecting with her family.
8 Tips to Deal With Cyberbullying
Here are a few simple ways to handle the stress of online drama.