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The Digital Mirror: What Online Behavior Reveals About Adolescent Mental Health
By JoAnna Molina, PhD Big Takeaways Teens often show mood changes online before they talk about them Posting, deleting posts, gaming patterns, and late-night scrolling can offer important insights into a teen’s mental health Not every change is a problem, but persistent changes can serve as red flags Noticing, [...]
Don’t Believe Everything You See From Influencers
By Remy Rosenberg How many of the people you follow on social media are influencers? Influencers can be entertaining, inspiring, and even feel like friends you’ve never met. But just because they have hundreds of thousands to millions of followers, doesn’t mean everything they post is true, realistic, or [...]
Taking Control: My Digital Resolutions for 2026
By Adithya Bharath As I'm counting down to graduation, I've been thinking a lot about the digital world I'm about to fully enter. We're the generation that grew up with AI in our pockets, algorithms knowing our next move before we do, and data breaches making headlines like weather [...]
Know Your Tech Limits: Can Heavy Tech Use Also Be Healthy?
By Jennifer Dylan Black-and-white thinking is when your thought patterns assign people, things, and actions into one of two categories – ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Sometimes it’s comforting to organize the world into dichotomous categories like this—it gives us the confidence to have a POV, take a stand, or decide [...]
Welcome to The Tech Wellness Movement
By Jennifer Dylan The technology wellness movement is coming to make you tech healthy—and the messaging just might work on your teen! If you and your child are struggling with technology and a happy home life, it may be time for a wellness reset! A reset in the wellness [...]
2026 Digital Parenting Guide: How Parents Can Talk To Their Kids About AI [ChatGPT]
A Realistic, 5-Step Framework for Today’s Digital Families By Allie Hunter TL;DR (busy mom edition) Kids use AI every day and often understand it better than adults. Parents do not need to be technical, they just need open communication. Set five simple rules: protect privacy, avoid AI companions, use [...]
How Technology Can Help: Grief
By Jennifer Dylan ‘To err is human’ acknowledges that despite doing the best one can, that heartbreak and missteps are a normal part of life. Yet the very normal, if not unavoidable, parts of being human—loss, regret, and trauma—grief of all kinds, are also uncomfortable to both experience and [...]
🎃 Always Be in Costume: The Fun (and Safety) of Staying Mysterious Online
By Susanne Gurman Halloween may come just once a year, but in the digital world, costumes are worn every day. We adults see this firsthand. Many of the world’s most significant data breaches start the same way: someone pretending to be someone else. A cybercriminal crafts a convincing story, sends [...]
College Board’s Latest: Cybersecurity Pathway
College Board is launching an exciting new initiative aimed at preparing high school students for careers in cybersecurity. The AP Career Kickstart™ Cybersecurity pilot program is a two-course pathway emphasizing professional experience and skill in the technological field. These courses allow students to receive college credit for their hard [...]
When Violent Videos Spread Online: Helping Kids Make Sense of What They See
By Allie Hunter What happened this week Recently two very upsetting videos have circulated widely online. In one, Charlie Kirk, a political speaker, was shot during an event at Utah Valley University. In another, Iryna Zarutska, a young woman from Ukraine, was stabbed while riding a Charlotte light rail [...]
Ask Your Kids About Their Tech
By Jennifer Dylan As parents, we can teach our kids valuable life lessons, but the constant stream of apps, games, and social media has changed what "parental control" really means. Kids now spend time in digital spaces where we aren’t always there to guide them. Yet when it comes [...]
Your Kids Are Hanging Out With AI. Here’s What This Lawsuit Teaches Us.
By Allie Hunter Photo source: https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/adam-raine-chatgpt-incident/ A heartbreaking lawsuit filed this week alleges that a teen built a deep, daily relationship with an AI chatbot (ChatGPT) that gradually validated his darkest thoughts. His parents say the AI didn’t just fail to help, it encouraged harmful ideas, offered to draft a [...]