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Financial literacy is not always taught in school. Here's how parents can prepare their kids to budget and invest wisely.
Ony some K-12 schools are teaching kids financial literacy. Here's what parents can do to teach the…
Cailey Griffin
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How Fizz, an anonymous messaging app for Gen Z, tore a high school apart
Fizz is a private messaging app meant to be a space for Gen Z to connect. But at a high school in V…
Lauren Edmonds
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My husband and I used a 'Cinderella' rule to limit our kids' screen time. We don't regret it.
Maria Estrada didn't want her kids to be too online, but she didn't want them to hate her either. S…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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TikTok's time in the US could soon be on the clock, and that's not the app's only problem
ByteDance will undoubtedly put up a legal fight over the law, and will also have a year to find a s…
Dan DeFrancesco
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I'm a mom of 3 in Israel. Every time my daughter walks into the room, I turn off the news.
Deborah Danan, a mom in Israel, says her Arab-Muslim neighbor helped lead her 8-year-old daughter t…
Deborah Danan
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Members of Congress are getting pushback on the TikTok ban from their own angry Gen Z kids
Several members of Congress spoke with the Wall Street Journal about how their children reacted to …
Lindsay Dodgson
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How to enable and use Kids Mode in Microsoft Edge to make web browsing child-friendly
Microsoft Edge has a "Kids Mode" that lets parents and guardians choose which websites their childr…
William Antonelli
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Lester Holt: Talking about the news with kids empowers them and makes things less scary
The news anchor says he wants kids to know the "tentpoles" of the news stories and encourages them …
Kelly Burch
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Facebook is building an instagram app for kids under 13, led by the former head of YouTube Kids
Despite platforms' struggles to prevent child abuse and bullying, Facebook hopes the app will incre…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Majority of parents surveyed have noted their kids making impulsive in-app purchases, reveals OLX study
80% of parents surveyed feel it necessary to actively monitor content being consumed by their littl…
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Lawmakers are going after Facebook's development of Instagram for kids, after a report showed it knew the social media app is toxic for teen girls
Democratic lawmakers have filed a letter to Mark Zuckerberg and a pair of senators have launched a …
Matthew Loh
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40% of kids under 13 already use Instagram and some are experiencing abuse and sexual solicitation, a report finds, as the tech giant considers building an Instagram app for kids
The report comes after 40 state attorneys general signed a letter urging Mark Zuckerberg to abandon…
Katie Canales
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Elon Musk's super-app ambitions took an interesting turn with his first acquisition at Twitter
Elon Musk's most recent deal highlights a unique approach to how he might want to go about building…
Dan DeFrancesco
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Netflix is launching a TikTok-like feature that shows kids short clips of children's movies and shows
"Kids Clips" showcases snippets of films and shows already in Netflix's library. The streamer plans…
Matthew Loh
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TikTok announces new tools to give parents more control over how their kids use the app
The changes are part of TikTok's Family Pairing program, which allows parents to monitor and limit …
Connor Perrett
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No, TikTok challenges aren't to blame for your kids doing dumb stuff — and most terrifying ones are probably fake anyway
For years, reports of harmful social media challenges on TikTok have spread, scaring parents. The p…
Palmer Haasch
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TikToks about the controversial Duggar family are getting millions of views in an emerging subculture knows as 'DuggarTok'
The "DuggarTok" community documents the "19 Kids and Counting" family's controversies and Josh Dugg…
Charlotte Colombo
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What is Yubo, the app the Uvalde school shooter used to meet strangers before his killings?
The 18-year-old gunman met several people on the social-media app, including a 15-year-old girl who…
Connor Perrett
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Instagram says it's putting a hold on its 'Instagram Kids' project for under-13s, citing backlash
Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri said news of the project leaked too early, provoking a backlash to w…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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40 state attorneys general sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg urging Facebook to abandon plans to build an Instagram app for kids under 13
Facebook should scrap Instagram for kids since it has "historically failed to protect the welfare o…