Articles tagged with 'Smart phone' | Checkup Newsroom

By Lisa Elliott, licensed psychologist At a minimum, COVID-19 has clearly upended our normal day-to-day functioning. However, for many this pandemic has had a devastating impact. It’s reported that one-third of the entire global population has ...

If you ask most teens what they enjoy doing in their free time, you can bet you’ll hear the words Facebook, Instagram, or Snapchat in their answer. Teenagers’ lives exist on social media. They use it to communicate, post photos, share content and ess...

At worst, I’m pretty sure I sound like the teacher from Charlie Brown. At best, the mom is rolling her eyes and pulling her phone out to hand to her screaming child. “Children under 2 years of age should have no screen time and after 2 years, w...

We use our smartphones on a daily basis and without it we feel like something is missing. But we never think twice about the bacteria we transfer onto our phones. We share a microbiological connection with our phones, meaning the germs from our bodie...

Nine seconds. It took that long to outrage a country from what was seen and heard by members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma chanting a racial epithet on a bus. While the video shows that we haven’t progressed as...

Since the beginning of time little children have been playing with sticks. You might think that with kids using technology more and more they play less and less with the real thing. But in this day and age, apps can be the new stick – just as fun, an...

Do you wish that mom at the park would parent her child so you don’t have to? Oh, there she is, over there checking out Facebook. Are you nervous every time her kid climbs up the ladder he might fall down and injure himself? She’s still play...

I had this amazing, Mom of the Year type plan where our family would reduce our use of electronics to 1 hour a day and provide the kids an opportunity to EARN up to another hour of screen time per day by doing various chores around the house. Awesome...