DATE: November 13, 2026 at 04:30AM
SOURCE: STAT NEWS MENTAL HEALTH
TITLE: STAT+: Across the U.S., homegrown experiments aim to save kids from their phones
MILWAUKEE — Kat Zilka sat on the floor of her living room, beside a glowing Christmas tree and a pile of essays, and felt like weeping. It was late in 2022, and she had asked her 12th grade digital journalism students to reflect on their relationships to devices.
“The things they were writing were deeply disturbing,” she said.
Teenagers quietly enduring online abuse, using their phones all night without their parents’ knowledge, or trapped in a cycle of deleting and redownloading social media. Their words made real what Zilka had been observing for years — how the light in students’ eyes was dimmer, especially since Covid — and revealed the astonishing magnitude of the problem.
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