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City of Seattle partners with local teletherapy startup to tackle youth mental health crisis

by Lisa Stiffler on September 8, 2023September 8, 2023 at 7:23 am

The city of Seattle and healthcare startup Joon Care are partnering to provide free online mental healthcare in an effort to increase services to teens and young adults, which as… Read More

Ask your mother: Amazon to let teens shop through a mobile app with parental controls

by Tom Krazit on October 11, 2017October 11, 2017 at 4:34 am

A new feature from Amazon will give teens a certain degree of autonomy to make purchases without requiring their parents to hand over their credit card numbers. Starting on Wednesday,… Read More

Teens think Amazon, Starbucks and Xbox are ‘lit,’ according to Google

by Monica Nickelsburg on April 4, 2017April 4, 2017 at 11:37 am

If you’re over 17, you may want to buckle your seatbelt for this. If not, I doubt your attention span has held to sentence number two, so deuces. Google, apparently… Read More

Teens are startlingly bad at deciphering fake news, Stanford study finds

by Monica Nickelsburg on November 22, 2016November 22, 2016 at 11:51 am

In the crucial final months of the election, Facebook engagement with bogus news stories outpaced legitimate news, according to BuzzFeed’s analysis. It’s an alarming trend, particularly when you look to the… Read More

TeenSafe service adds option for parents to monitor underage kids on Tinder

by Monica Nickelsburg on April 29, 2016April 29, 2016 at 9:05 am

TeenSafe, a service that allows parents to view their kids’ text messages, phone logs, web history, and activity on a variety of apps, was recently updated to include Tinder. According… Read More

Teens fake parental consent to enter contracts across the web — but their legal status is flimsy

by Bob Sullivan on November 20, 2015November 20, 2015 at 9:16 am

Hey parents: You won’t believe the contracts your kids have been roped into. Like a fine print virus spreading quickly around the globe, under-aged teenagers are suddenly being shrink-wrapped into… Read More

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