The Digital Family

How and why our kids use technology.

When Digital Natives Become Parents

The first generation of digital kids is now old enough to be parents themselves.  This is the millennial generation, born between 1980 and 2000, who grew up on video games, had access to email in grade school, to cell phones in high school, and Facebook in college.  If it's true that people resemble their times more than they resemble their parents, will this early exposure to and imm Read More

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Anne K. Fishel, Ph.D., is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology at the Harvard Medical School and Director of the Family and Couples Therapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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