The Best Advice Yet on Parenting Screen-Addicted Kids
- By Loretta Boronat
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- 18 Feb, 2019
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Raising children in this decade is vastly different from previous times. Phones, computers, gaming consoles, we all want our children to enjoy life but have found these things to be addicting. This article brings up 5 great lessons learned from raising a kid in the digital era. The main takeaways include this being both a good and a bad situation, that parents are happy to keep things as they and reminding the audience that there is still time to change your household routines.
Key Takeaways:
- The author defines himself as a techno-skeptic. He states that he owned a flip phone for years until his son broke it before he bought a smartphone.
- Because his children are growing up in a screen saturated world, for which he cannot take away, the author has to learn how to help them.
- A new book that tackles parenting and technology head on, “Raising Humans in a Digital World,” by Diana Graber illuminates how to educate children in a digital world.
"A UK study found that the subtle pressure to garner likes, friends, and followers on social media leads middle school children to become overly dependent on this form of social validation."
Read more: https://www.outsideonline.com/2387461/book-raising-humans-digital-world


