Should you get your kids a simple voice phone or a more capable smartphone? What about parental controls? Here's what you need to know, along with our top-tested picks for children of all ages. I’m ...

In late December, the 21st to be exact, my friends Amos and Clara called me 17 times. On December 22 it was eight times. The calls were short—sometimes only 30 to 45 seconds, and they usually arrived ...

If you’re a mom with a kid in elementary school like me, you’ve likely been hearing about the Tin Can phone. Our team at The Everymom has been all about the analog life lately and talks of landlines ...

Earlier this year, a parent on Reddit’s r/Parenting forum posted a deceptively simple question: at what age should a kid get a phone? The catch was that they deliberately left out their own child’s ...

When my oldest daughter turned 10, many of her friends were already getting phones. At the time, I was working as a middle school teacher, and I had a front-row seat to what constant screen time was ...