With schools having gone online during the COVID-19 pandemic, much of a child’s education is now dependent on being connected and logged in at home for hours every day. Here, author of Raising Your Child in a Digital World and digital wellbeing expert Dr Kristy Goodwin give her top tips for managing the amount of screen time in your child’s day.
1-MAKE NEW RULES – AND INCLUDE THE KIDS
We need to recalibrate our screen-time rules. Trying to adhere to our previous limits is only going to set us up for failure.
How much kids are using technology is important, especially if it’s interfering with their developmental priorities, but otherwise focus more on how (selecting apps and websites), when (to see how it fits in with the family and the school schedule) and where (is their bedroom the best place, for example) they’re using it, and concentrate on having boundaries on that.
2-KEEP IT BRIEF
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