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Social media is a major part of everyday life for most of us, teens and adolescents included – and that can be both good and bad. How should kids be engaging with social media? And what knowledge and training should they have, to be better able to navigate that world?

A presidential panel of the American Psychological Association recently issued a “Health Advisory on Social Media Use in Adolescence,” with ten recommendations for teens and parents.

Click here to read the health advisory.

Click here to learn more about how you can help guide your teens online.

Aaron recently spoke with one of the co-chairs: Mitch Prinstein, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at UNC. (Prinstein also participated in an interview on how to teach social media literacy to teens; you can read it here.)

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