Teens Want to Decrease Their Smartphone Use. Six Ways Parents Can Help

Parents of teens don’t need to read the current research findings to know that many adolescents are online constantly – we just need to glance into their messy bedrooms, or see them walking in the door, or ignoring our repeated questions – heads down and engrossed trance-like in their smartphones that seem surgically attached to the palms of their hands.

What is surprising however, is that according to the Teen Smartphone Addiction National Survey (based on research conducted from 2016 to 201...