In the News: iPhones and Children Are a Toxic Pair, Say Two Big Apple Investors

In the Wall Street Journal, David Benoit reports that two large investors are asking Apple to do more to address the overuse of cell phones by kids.

A leading activist investor and a pension fund sent a letter to Apple “urging it to develop new software tools that would help parents control and limit phone use more easily and to study the impact of overuse on mental health.”

Earlier this week, EdNext published an excerpt from a new book by Naomi Schaefer Riley that urges parents to Be the Parent, Please: Stop Banning Seesaws and Start Banning SnapChat.

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