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7Oct By viralzergnet.comNo Comments

I Stopped Using My Phone Around My Kids For A Week—And Here’s What Happened

I Stopped Using My Phone Around My Kids For A Week—And Here’s What Happened How much screen time is too much? Technology and the role it plays in our kids’ lives is a common topic for parenting blogs and playground chit-chat. How much screen time is too much? When should kids get their own phones? Can I effectively monitor what my kids are seeing? Posting? Texting? We worry about their development, the internet content they are consuming and who they are following on social media. But perhaps the real worry and the better question we should be asking is: How much time do we, the parents, spend on our own devices? And is this adult screen timeimpacting our kids? Research says yes. And, so do my kids. Maybe not so much in their words (they are only 4 and 7), but certainly in the...

Why Parents Should Stop Feeling So Guilty About Their Kids Watching TV

28Sep By viralzergnet.comNo Comments

Family & Parenting

Why Parents Should Stop Feeling So Guilty About Their Kids Watching TV

Parents, this is an interesting read. I’ve never met a parent at ease with the fact that their children watch television. This includes many, many lovely, curious and conscientious parents who allow their equally lovely, curious and conscientious children an American Academy of Pediatrics-approvedone to seven hours a week of television and video games. Their kids love it. And they, the parents, seem to find relief in the break it gives them. Still, when the subject of TV comes up, they squirm. They stutter. Their cheeks turn red and their eyebrows cinch as they, so apologetically, explain why they need, really need, to turn on cartoons to cook dinner or catch their breath. In each of their minds lurks the specter of some other parent, be it a tech mogul or a supermom, whose chil...

Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘Parents, Put Down Your Cellphones’

21Sep By viralzergnet.comNo Comments

Entertainment

Jamie Lee Curtis: ‘Parents, Put Down Your Cellphones’

Parents, this is an important read. Many parents struggle with limiting their kids’ screen time. And when it comes to their own compulsive phone use, they have some work to do as well. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis speaks out about this disconnect, insisting parents need to lead by example in order to help their kids develop a healthy relationship with technology. In an essay for NBC News, Curtis lays out the argument that an obsession with our phones and with social media is a societal problem, and that it’s up to adults to make sure it’s not passed down to the next generation. “There’s an obsession with other people’s personal lives, and people are obsessed with themselves, which children can’t help but pick up on,” Curtis writes. She calls the problem a “runaway train” and bemoans...