PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Ten months into this pandemic and many students have spent most, if not all, of the time in virtual learning. According to experts, kids who have been spending most of the day ...

A professor of developmental psychology explains why our ability to multitask changes as we age. We're all time-poor, so multitasking is seen as a necessity of modern living. We answer work emails ...

Apparently, multitasking is a bad idea. Or so a media frenzy told us a month ago. Young people especially flip between tasks in what appears to be a completely natural way and seem able to take in ...

It’s an all-too-familiar scene in my house: I’m standing at the stove, stirring the mac and cheese while occasionally checking email or text messages on my phone. Meanwhile, my older daughter is at ...

Most pundits say that kids multi-tasking -- doing homework with the TV on, for example -- is just the way things are now, and indeed they may be right. But in the new Atlantic author Walter Kirn says ...

It's hard to believe there was a time, not terribly long ago, when the idea of 6-year-olds having media habits -- much less media habits requiring them to multitask -- would have seemed absurd. Now, ...