TikTok Therapy: What Teens Get from Influencers That Adults Might Be Missing
It’s easy to panic when we hear that teens are turning to TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube for mental health advice. (I mean, there’s a lot of brainrot out there.) As…
‘Adolescence’ Revealed a ‘Secret Language’ of Emojis — Should Parents Be Worried?
When I imagined life with teenagers, I seriously underestimated how much time I’d spend just trying to decode what they were saying (cracked? Sigma? Crash out?) and their cryptic emoji…
TikTok Might Be Banned (Again). Here’s What 6 Teens Think About That
Will TikTok be banned… again? Or saved… again? Welcome back to the frenzy of will it or won’t it speculation now that President Trump’s executive order-decreed 75-day extension is almost…
One Year After ‘The Anxious Generation,’ Moms Are Driving a Movement. There’s Still Work to Do
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. When my oldest son was 10, my husband and…
Spam Accounts Are Making Instagram Casual Again — And as a Gen Z Girl, I’m Here for It
Forget finstas — there’s a new type of Instagram account taking over teens‘ feeds these days. Gen Z is now embracing the “spam” account as a way to reclaim a…
The Lonely Reality of Being ‘Connected’
If your teen is anything like the average teen, they’re probably always on a FaceTime call, gaming with friends online while chatting through a headset, or getting notification after notification…