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Stylised illustration of a teen's homework desk with a smartphone glowing with notifications, split between a calm focused brain and a chaotic distracted brain.
Myth or evidence

Myth: teens can multitask homework and their phones

No. Stanford research found heavy media multitaskers are more easily distracted and worse at switching tasks — so keep phones in another…

22 Oct 2026 Read →
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Myth or evidence

Myth: Kids Born With Phones Are Automatically Internet-Safe

False: being born around phones does not make a child internet-safe. Age has no link to internet know-how, so digital safety must…

15 Oct 2026 Read →
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Myth or evidence

Is your child's attention span really 8 seconds? Myth checked

No. The famous 8-second figure comes from an unsourced graphic in a 2015 Microsoft report, and a 2017 BBC investigation found no…

8 Oct 2026 Read →