When one school district in the greater Washington D.C. area decided to get more relaxed about cell phones, it apparently went all the way – not only allowing their use in the hallways and cafeteria, ...

According to a study by Pew Internet Research, 75 percent of children ages 12 to 17 own a cell phone, and many of their phones are smartphones, which have Internet access, cameras with video ...

A third of the 20 million American preteen children between the ages of 8-12 already have a cell phone and that level will jump to nearly half by 2010, according to industry experts. With so many ...

Owning a cell phone is a huge responsibility — especially for growing minds. The relationship your child has with their cell phone now will form the way they communicate for the rest of their lives.

For her 11th birthday last November, Kenady Slominski received her first cell phone. “She was so honored, she cried,” said her mom, Heather Deziel of Alvarado, Minn., who saw the phone as a way to ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — Everywhere you go, people are on their cell phones. They’re talking, they’re texting, they’re using apps, and they’re not paying attention to anything happening around them.

Oakland Community College instructor Michael Vollbach remembers the first time he saw a cell phone in his classroom. The early model "looked a lot like an army field radio," he said, and rang like a ...

It’s incredible how big of a problem cell phone usage is at school. About a third of the kiddos in most classes at the two Seattle area high schools where I teach have just checked out and use them as ...