Each week we will share ideas for you to talk with your family around the dinner table-and if a family dinner won't happen due to busy schedules, try a 5 minute pow wow before bed. We'll have live chats, simple written tips, guest speakers and more coming soon. Tech Talk Tuesdays aren't just for families--we can talk to our friends, colleagues and neighbors.
We also want YOU to share you ideas. What do you want us to talk about? What solutions have you come up with? What things have your tried that have failed? Please also encourage your kids to share their ideas.
This week how about talking to your family about everyone taking one app off their device for one week. Pick the one app you use the most. It might also be fun to track how much time you spend on that app for one day and then multiply that by seven and see how much you were actually able to cut down on screen time by doing just this one thing.
For me, this would be taking the email app off my phone. If I did this, I would be forced to only correspond with people at my desk. It would help me separate my work life from my family life.
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Each week we will share ideas for you to talk with your family around the dinner table-and if a family dinner won't happen due to busy schedules, try a 5 minute pow wow before bed. We'll have live chats, simple written tips, guest speakers and more coming soon. Tech Talk Tuesdays aren't just for families--we can talk to our friends, colleagues and neighbors.
We also want YOU to share you ideas. What do you want us to talk about? What solutions have you come up with? What things have your tried that have failed? Please also encourage your kids to share their ideas.
This week how about talking to your family about everyone taking one app off their device for one week. Pick the one app you use the most. It might also be fun to track how much time you spend on that app for one day and then multiply that by seven and see how much you were actually able to cut down on screen time by doing just this one thing.
For me, this would be taking the email app off my phone. If I did this, I would be forced to only correspond with people at my desk. It would help me separate my work life from my family life.
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Each week we will share ideas for you to talk with your family around the dinner table-and if a family dinner won't happen due to busy schedules, try a 5 minute pow wow before bed. We'll have live chats, simple written tips, guest speakers and more coming soon. Tech Talk Tuesdays aren't just for families--we can talk to our friends, colleagues and neighbors.
We also want YOU to share you ideas. What do you want us to talk about? What solutions have you come up with? What things have your tried that have failed? Please also encourage your kids to share their ideas.
This week how about talking to your family about everyone taking one app off their device for one week. Pick the one app you use the most. It might also be fun to track how much time you spend on that app for one day and then multiply that by seven and see how much you were actually able to cut down on screen time by doing just this one thing.
For me, this would be taking the email app off my phone. If I did this, I would be forced to only correspond with people at my desk. It would help me separate my work life from my family life.
The first of more than a thousand school district lawsuits against TikTok, Snapchat, Meta, and YouTube has settled, with a small Kentucky district awarded $27 million. Discovery records made public showed the companies designed to reach kids during the school day, from in-class alerts to keeping notifications on against safety teams' advice, while research finds students spend about 1.5 hours of a 6.5-hour school day on their phones.
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The first of 1,200+ school district lawsuits against social media companies just settled, with Meta, YouTube, Snap, and TikTok all paying out rather than face a jury. Meta points to its Teen Accounts feature as proof of safety, but a study by former Meta safety lead Arturo Bejar found only 8 of 47 advertised features actually work as described.
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Teen psychologist Lisa Damour breaks down three manipulative tactics online games and apps use to push kids into spending: algorithms that time pitches to when kids are tired or bored, scarcity tactics like countdown timers that trigger impulse buys, and in-app currencies (gems, coins, tokens) designed to disguise real dollar costs. Research shows teens resist these tactics better once they understand them.
READ MORE >for more like this, DR. DELANEY RUSTON'S NEW BOOK, PARENTING IN THE SCREEN AGE, IS THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE FOR TODAY’S PARENTS. WITH INSIGHTS ON SCREEN TIME FROM RESEARCHERS, INPUT FROM KIDS & TEENS, THIS BOOK IS PACKED WITH SOLUTIONS FOR HOW TO START AND SUSTAIN PRODUCTIVE FAMILY TALKS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY AND IT’S IMPACT ON OUR MENTAL WELLBEING.
