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There’s a lot of talk about limiting screen time for kids — particularly when it comes to mobile devices.
But the children of the world have a message for mom and dad: Physician, heal thyself.
Read more: Study: Parents have no clue what their kids are actually doing online
A new survey of 2,000 English students between the ages of 11 and 18 found young adults are starved for a meal with their parents without the phone.
Fourteen percent of kids said their parents are on their phones throughout family meals. Yet a near majority of parents who were polled separately — 95% — wouldn’t fess up to the crime!
Talk about denying you have a problem.
Meanwhile, 36% of kids said they’ve asked their parents to put down their phones and focus on family time. Sadly, 46% of those kids said their requests went unheeded. That left 44% of them feeling upset and ignored by their parents, according to the survey.
As parents, we talk all the time about how we have to monitor and cap the time our kids spend in front of the TV, the computer or the phone.
But we aren’t modeling good behavior ourselves!
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long said that kids over the age of 2 shouldn’t have more than two hours of daily screen time in any form. But that advice is changing.
Here are the new recommendations:
The problem is, we’re not doing a very good job of limiting our own screen time.
But if technology created this problem in the first place, maybe it can take it away too…
If you just can’t seem to put the smartphone or the computer down at night, there’s a $99 device called Screen that will do the following:
Screen is supposed to be for parents to limit the electronics in their kids’ lives. But this solution could work for parents too.
Visit GetScreen.com for more details.
Read more: 7 ways to help your child (and maybe even you!) get a better night of sleep
This post was last modified on April 25, 2017 4:17 pm
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