By Natasha Singer and Kate Conger Google agreed on Wednesday to pay a record $170 million fine and make changes to protect children’s privacy on YouTube, as regulators said the video site had knowingly and illegally harvested personal information from […]
By Perri Klass, M.D. Earlier this month when Weight Watchers put out its new Kurbo app, designed for children ages 8 through 17, there was an outcry across social media arguing that weight loss programs for children can lead to […]
By Elizabeth Williamson WASHINGTON — After the first day of school at Mark T. Sheehan High School in Wallingford, Conn., Mackenzie Bushey, a 15-year-old junior, came home upset that a teacher enforced a no-cellphones policy by confiscating students’ phones before […]
By Emily S. Rueb In a new set of guidelines, the World Health Organization said that infants under 1 year old should not be exposed to electronic screens and that children between the ages of 2 and 4 should not […]
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. — Last month, as the 20th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting approached, STEM School Highlands Ranch joined hundreds of schools near Denver in closing temporarily amid security concerns. The anniversary came and went, and schools […]
www.nytimes.com Santa Fe, Texas, School Shooting: At Least 8 Dead and Suspect in Custody By ROXANNA ASGARIAN, ALAN BLINDER and NIRAJ CHOKSHI SANTA FE, Tex. — A male student was taken into custody on Friday morning after a shooting spree […]
By Perri Klass, M.D. It’s a truism in child development that the very young learn through relationships and back-and-forth interactions, including the interactions that occur when parents read to their children. A new study provides evidence of just how sustained […]
Christopher Jensen, The New York Times General Motors is recalling about 478,000 trucks, including almost 427,000 in the United States, because the brake pedal could fall off, the automaker said on Wednesday. The recall covers the 2015-16 Chevrolet Silverado and […]
Carl Zimmer, New York Times In 2013, an obese man went to Hvidovre Hospital in Denmark to have his stomach stapled. All in all, it was ordinary bariatric surgery — with one big exception. A week before the operation, the […]
Kelly Dinardo, New York Times The comedian Jim Gaffigan shares a two-bedroom apartment in New York City with his wife, Jeannie, and five children. If that sounds like the start of a joke, it’s because his TV Land comedy series, […]
Since 1989, CSN has been making America a safer place for children to live.
