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Minnesota announced this week it has joined a multistate lawsuit against Facebook s parent company Meta, over claims of addictive social media features harming teens. It coincides with growing research about teens and gambling. Serena King, professor and chair of psychology at Hamline University, has been working with the Minnesota Alliance on Problem Gambling to analyze results from the most recent Minnesota Student Survey while the legal action plays out. . ....
October is Financial Planning Month and an engaging event is helping high schoolers think about their money managing futures. More than 90 "Bite of Reality" fairs have reached 9,000 students across the west, including in Washington state. Sarae Bay, manager with the GoWest Foundation, an organization that works with credit unions in the region and sponsors the fairs, said during the events, each student is assigned a persona. . ....
Skills for reducing violence are becoming essential in schools. At the beginning of the school year, students at a Washington state high school participated in a workshop aimed at doing that. The Alternatives to Violence Project mostly works in jails and prisons around the world. . ....
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Over the next couple of weeks, kids across Minnesota will head back to school. Addiction specialists say now is a good time for parents to address any concerning behavior in their child s online habits. Internet addiction is not formally recognized yet in a key reference tool from the American Psychiatric Association. . ....