Location sharing can enhance connection and feelings of safety, but raises questions about privacy, personal boundaries, and what it means to be constantly visible.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Here's how to talk to your child about AI, starting in preschool. A free downloadable Parent Guide with some tips and conversation starters is included.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Kids are forming emotional bonds with chatbots. With digital literacy and parental guidance, kids can have healthy interactions that support learning and creativity.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Personality tests and quizzes offer insight, emotional validation and a socially acceptable way to talk about ourselves and connect with others.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Stories like "Adolescence" trigger strong emotions, making them more persuasive than data and powerful enough to influence parental decisions and policy debates.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Lawmakers focus on age checks but never bother to fund the digital literacy skills kids need to build healthy media habits and navigate online risks.| Digital Brains & Behavior
True crime media isn’t just a guilty pleasure—it can fulfill deep emotional and cognitive needs, especially for women.| Digital Brains & Behavior
When markets drop, it's not only our 401Ks that disappear—it's our future stories. No amount of financial doomscrolling can appease our anxiety or offset the grief for lost hopes and dreams.| Digital Brains & Behavior
By watching Bluey and her family navigate everyday challenges, children build a mental toolkit for responding in real-life social situations.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Get smart about your digital habits. Try these 8 small hacks to change automatic behaviors to intentional ones and improve real-life connections and well-being.| Digital Brains & Behavior
While each can contribute to strengthening connection, trust, and intimacy, consistency--not a specific method--is the best way to maintain friendships.| Digital Brains & Behavior
AI influences our decisions and beliefs—and we even don’t notice—by taking advantage of our innate responses to novelty, interactivity, and social validation.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Rewatching and sharing favorites improves mood, releases stress, builds rituals, and strengthens emotional connections.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Feeling anxious about election results? Here are 7 tips to help you stay grounded and protect your well-being during election night.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Teens face a new digital threat: deepfake nudes. Parents can help prevent this form of bullying by empowering teens with the skills and resources to be safer online.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Small hacks to avoid "first-thing" device use will improve your mood, focus and productivity.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Technology use strategies that don't teach media literacy will fail our kids| Digital Brains & Behavior
Mindless scrolling and fast-forwarding through digital content to avoid boredom can backfire. Here are 4 tips to manage boredom without going right to your phone.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Digital literacy, not fear-based restrictions, are needed to help kids build safe and healthy relationships with technology.| Digital Brains & Behavior
Political campaigns can increase stress and strain relationships. These strategies will help you build resilience and keep your cool during elections.| drpam.substack.com
Practical tips & psychological insights about tech trends to create healthy media relationships. Click to read Digital Brains & Behavior, by Dr. Pamela Rutledge, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.| drpam.substack.com
Apps like Life360 and FindMyFriends are digital monitoring tools that let users see the location of family, friends or anyone, really, who agrees to allow you to track them.| drpam.substack.com
