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Titania Jordan is the leading expert on kids and technology. As CMO and Chief Parent Officer of Bark Technologies, she helps protect over 7.5 million children online. She's a go-to voice for national media like TODAY and CBS, and the author of Parental Control.
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Titania Jordan is the leading expert on kids and technology. As CMO and Chief Parent Officer of Bark Technologies, she helps protect over 7.5 million children online. She's a go-to voice for national media like TODAY and CBS, and the author of Parental Control.
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A parenting advice column addresses whether a 12-year-old's constant phone use constitutes addiction, explaining that problematic smartphone use is real and designed to be habit-forming. The article provides warning signs like emotional dysregulation, sleep disruption, and loss of interest in other activities, recommending parents start with conversation rather than confiscation.
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Summary
A parenting advice column addresses whether a 12-year-old's constant phone use constitutes addiction, explaining that problematic smartphone use is real and designed to be habit-forming. The article provides warning signs like emotional dysregulation, sleep disruption, and loss of interest in other activities, recommending parents start with conversation rather than confiscation.
Tags
phone-addiction · parenting · digital-wellbeing · teen-mental-health · screen-time · social-media · child-development
Key entities
Titania Jordan (person, 0.95) · Bark (organization, 0.95) · problematic smartphone use (concept, 0.9) · digital citizenship (concept, 0.85) · phone addiction (concept, 0.9) · emotional dysregulation (concept, 0.85)
Classification
reference · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-haiku-4-5 via @stacklist/be@0.1.0, confidence 0.85, 17 Sep 2026