Parents, Check Your Own Digital Media Use
Parents check their phones around 70 times a day and consistently underestimate it. Before setting a screen-time rule for your child, it's worth auditing the example you're setting.
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Teaching a child to use the internet is not like teaching them to ride a bike. A child feels nervous before the first ride. In front of a phone, they are fearless — the dangers aren’t visible, so their instincts never fire.
Articles here are for the adults: screen-time agreements that hold up on a bad week, an honest look at your own phone habits, what the apps in your child’s dock actually do, and the conversations worth having before there’s an incident to have them about.
The Parent’s Playbook collects the practical version of all of it in one page.
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