ScreenTime
ScreenTime
Podcast Description
Being a parent today means having to manage our children’s digital lives. Playgrounds aren’t just outdoors anymore, and childhood is spent increasingly on screens in digital spaces.
ScreenTime features conversations with experts and researchers to help parents navigate the challenges that come with parenting in the digital age.
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The show focuses on parenting in the digital age, covering topics such as the impact of social media on adolescent mental health, identity development in digital contexts, the long-term effects of screen time, cyberbullying prevention tactics, video game addiction, and balanced screen time approaches. Specific episodes include discussions on the 'double-edged sword' of social media, insights from major research studies like the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study, and expert advice on creating family media plans.
Being a parent today means having to manage our children’s digital lives. Playgrounds aren’t just outdoors anymore, and childhood is spent increasingly on screens in digital spaces.
ScreenTime features conversations with experts and researchers to help parents navigate the challenges that come with parenting in the digital age.
For many parents today, managing kids’ screen time and technology use can feel like a full-time job. As growing evidence shows a correlation between excessive screen use and mental health issues, families struggle to establish rules and guidelines around technology.
If you have been following the growing body of research into technology use is changing childhood, you have likely come across the work of researcher and professor Jean Twenge. In her latest book “10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World,” she gives parents concrete advice for how to manage screen time based on her research, as well as from her experience as a parent herself.
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