Making Emergency Calls From Smartphones In the past, kids could pick up the landline in an emergency and call emergency services. As long as they could remember the simple three-digit phone number ...

Is TikTok empowering or endangering the health of kids and teens in the U.S.? As an emergency physician, I often ask myself that question. There are some positives to the platform. Trends that go ...

"We have to teach our kids what to do in an emergency," one doctor says — though getting through password-protected phones makes it difficult.

Kids accessing phones during school day not only distracts from learning but also from paying attention to emergency instructions.

But if we expect our kids to comply with no-phones policies, we’ve got to get over the deprivation. Our own parents would just call the front office — in an emergency.

The number of kids in Colorado emergency rooms with a mental health or self-harm primary diagnosis more than doubled from 2,002 in 2016 to 5,168 in 2021.

By constantly texting their kids at school, parents are unwittingly stymying their children’s educational potential and failing to launch independent adults into the world, writes Jill Filipovic.

An emergency can happen in an instant, and preparing your kids ahead of time can save their lives. “If children don’t ...

NPR 'Emergency Quarters' are for pay phones (remember those?) in a new book by '90s kids Ernesto's mom gives him a quarter every morning. "For emergencies," she says. "If you need me, look for a ...

A first-of-its-kind program in Oregon — HERO Kids Registry — aims to ensure kids get the proper care in an emergency.

Importance of teaching your kids how to handle an emergency Parents should also emphasize to kids that emergency responders are meant to help and not to be feared.

This ain't Starlink, kids. Emergency SOS Messaging On Apple's iOS 18 On the iPhone 14 and later, you can use a very similar feature to the Pixel's function without cell service or Wi-Fi.