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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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April 21, 2026
<p>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.</p><p>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 <a href="https://www.jeantwenge.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 108, 180);"><u>Jean Twenge</u></a>. In her latest book <strong>“</strong><a href="https://www.jeantwenge.com/10-rules-for-raising-kids-in-a-high-tech-world/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 108, 180);"><strong><u>10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World</u></strong></a><strong>,”</strong> 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.</p>
June 9, 2025
<![CDATA[<p>Researcher Danny Muñoz Lopez studies the connection between media use and adolescent mental health and wellbeing. While the focus often centers on mental harms from technologies like social media, Lopez notes that social media can also provide connection for young people, especially for those from historically marginalized groups. She also emphasizes the need to include young people in discussions around children and technology.</p><p><br></p><p>Resources mentioned:</p><p><br></p><p>Social media test drive</p><p><a href="https://socialmediatestdrive.org/" target="_blank">https://socialmediatestdrive.org/</a></p><p>Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship</p><p><a href="https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship" target="_blank">https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship</a></p>]]>
June 9, 2025
<![CDATA[<p>Adolescence is a time of enormous social, emotional, and physical change and development. A central part of that development, as kids enter those early teenage years, is developing a self-identity.</p><p><br></p><p>Clinical psychologist Robert Teel works with patients as young as 12 years old with a focus on digital use disorders. He explains more about this time of life and how identity development is playing out in the digital realm.</p>]]>
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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.
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