These days, just about everything is on a screen. Your children likely spend a lot of time using screens, whether it’s at school or home. As a parent, you must keep an eye on the trends in your house.
Wait, stop scrolling! How long have you been on your phone today? Is social media rotting your brain? We are constantly asking questions like these, but just how worried should you be about your ...
“That’s enough screen time for today,” you tell your kid, urging them to turn off the video-game console or iPad. As for what they should do instead, you are not quite sure. And what about you? If ...
In an era of hyperconnectivity, screen time has become a defining feature – and struggle – of family life. Parents have to consider not only their own habits but the digital boundaries they set for ...
In an age when parents turn to the internet for answers, conversations about screen time have become both urgent and deeply polarized. Headlines about its impact on children’s development flood social ...
The guidance was released by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Children are growing up in an increasingly digital world that affects sleep, learning and mental health, making screen-time limits ...
Tension: We measure our digital consumption obsessively while ignoring what those numbers reveal about our hunger for connection. Noise: Screen time debates frame technology as the villain when it’s ...
Ask a parent today what they worry about, and many will mention screen time. Teens can’t put down their phones, TikTok becomes pervasive by sixth grade, and is my kid really doing homework on their ...
Excessive screen time is usually something people worry about regarding their children. On average, children ranging from 8 to 18 spend an estimated 7 1/2 hours a day watching or using their screens, ...
New findings about screen-time for babies and kids are something I keep a close eye on. As parent of three young children, I want to do what’s best for them. And yet I’m often tempted to use the ...
As a young millennial, I had a pretty tech-free childhood, save for cable television and the occasional AOL/AIM log-on. It wasn’t until I was a preteen that I started to get interested in MySpace, ...