"Get them into a sport or an activity, something that they can learn from, something that they can work on, something that ...
Two months ago Daisy Greenwell and Clare Fernyhough set up a WhatsApp group to discuss how to stave off their young children’s demands for smartphones. After they posted about their plans on Instagram ...
Parents trying to raise kids in a tech-saturated world are overwhelmed with the amount of work and fighting it takes to protect them.
Thomas is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Hope College. She researches child and adolescent development funded by The Templeton World Charity Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Parents may have noticed this with their own children. A recent survey by the nonprofit research organization Common Sense Media found that screen use among teens and tweens rose 17% ...
With pop-up alerts, your smartphone likely keeps you posted on the number of hours you’ve been staring at the screen. And those screentime hours don’t even include the time you spend in front of your ...
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Is All Screen Time Harmful?

When people talk about mental health and technology, the conversation almost always comes back to screen time. Headlines, ...
How much screen time is safe for babies? Screens inevitably play a huge role in our daily lives, but what exactly is screen time and what does this mean for our babies and children and their ...
It’s 5:30 p.m. on a Wednesday. Dinner isn’t ready, your partner isn’t home yet and two needy little kids won’t let you chop an onion. What’s a parent to do? Consider the TV, potentially the most ...
While many of us are guilty of handing over an iPad, phone or tablet to our kids in order to take a work call, scarf down a ...