Reclaim childhood: An Iowa call to action on smartphones, social media - The Des Moines Register

An Iowa pediatrician's call to action on smartphones and social media for children We must collectively protect children. And even if you don’t have children, speak up because it will affect our ... Read More

An Iowa pediatrician's call to action on smartphones and social media for children - MSN

As a community, we must adopt new norms around social media and smartphones to reduce the cancerous risk they pose to our children. Facebook became mainstream in 2006, and smartphones ubiquitous ... Read More

Reclaim childhood: Take action regarding smartphones and social media use for Iowa’s children - The Gazette

As a community, we must adopt new norms around social media and smartphones to reduce the cancerous risk they pose to our children. Facebook became mainstream in 2006, and smartphones ubiquitous ... Read More

Best tips for monitoring social media for kids from an Iowa expert - The Des Moines Register

A University of Iowa researcher recommends this approach for monitoring your children's social media usage. News Sports Opinion Business Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals NEWS ... Read More

Social media is crushing kids' mental health. Get smartphones out of Iowa schools.

Tech companies have engineered a stranglehold on the attentions of American children. Seeing the myriad harms that smartphones and social media have wrought, people in authority from the local to ... Read More

Ban smartphones from schools: They're crushing our kids' mental health - The Des Moines Register

Tech companies have engineered a stranglehold on the attentions of American children. Seeing the myriad harms that smartphones and social media have wrought, people in authority from the local to ... Read More

Iowa pediatrician under investigation over social media post - Baltimore Sun

A pediatric cardiologist for University of Iowa Health Care is facing an internal probe over a social media post directed at a supporter of President-elect Donald Trump. Read More

Iowa Poll: Social media accounts for kids should need OK from parents - The Des Moines Register

The Iowa Poll, conducted Feb. 25-28, 2024, for The Des Moines Register and Mediacom by Selzer & Co. of Des Moines, is based on telephone interviews with 804 Iowans ages 18 or older. Read More

An Iowa pediatrician's call to action on smartphones and social media for children - AOL

Dr. Padget Skogman is a pediatrician in Cedar Rapids. This article originally appeared on Des Moines Register: Reclaim childhood: An Iowa call to action on smartphones, social media ... Read More

An Iowa pediatrician's call to action on smartphones and social media for children

This spring, our surgeon general recommended that we mandate a warning label on social media platforms cautioning of the detrimental effects to mental health of our children. Evidence demands that ... Read More