Cutting children's screen time has to start with a good parental example

WAY on holiday for a few days recently I passed one of those odd little kiosks you only get in European cities.

- SUSAN LEE

You know the ones I mean - they sell bottled water, postcards, cheap fridge magnets and foreign sweets you've never heard of.

Outside there was an ancient rack hanging near the entrance full of 2026 calendars for sale and as a journalist it suddenly struck me - once upon a time those wire shelves would have been full of printed guide books.

Their contents might not have been the most up to date - I picked up one in Rome once that was so old it was written in Latin - but they were always there; a reassuring tome telling you what time museums opened and where to get the best ice cream.

How times have changed. Now we have all the information we could ever need in the palm of our hand in an instant.

But is that necessarily a good thing?