SALT LAKE CITY — Tweens and teens spend as much as nine hours a day scrolling through social media, gaming, online shopping, video chatting and texting on their cellphones.
And an increasing amount of evidence suggests all that screen time is taking a toll on their mental health.
Lyman Stone, Peter Foreshaw Brookes, The Critic
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