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As rates of depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed — or whether depressed kids simply spend more time on social media? A new study provides ...

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In 1996, I was a freshly minted high-school history teacher offering a lesson about the presidential election. Ned, who sat in the back row, was doing what Ned always did: making his classmates laugh.

Whenever I see headlines or memes telling us to stop yelling at our children, I want to yell right back. I recently ran across an article in the Washington Post, “How (and why) to stop yelling at your ...