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Preparing for the Conversation About Screen Time Rules

Most parenting blogs recommend setting a two-hour-per-day time limit on all screens for minors. Is that what's best for your children?

Most parenting blogs recommend setting a two-hour-per-day time limit on all screens for minors. Is that what's best for your children?

Parenting in the Digital Age

The internet contains violent and sexual images that can traumatize youngsters. Parents must stay informed, communicate, and use the tools available to manage children's exposure.

The internet contains violent and sexual images that can traumatize youngsters. Parents must stay informed, communicate, and use the tools available to manage children's exposure.

Managing Summer Screen Time for Kids with ADHD

Kids would choose to sit in front of a screen nonstop. Here are ways to leverage their love of screens to promote healthy activities.

Kids would choose to sit in front of a screen nonstop. Here are ways to leverage their love of screens to promote healthy activities.

Recreational Screen Hours and Your Brain

We all use recreational screens, but how much is OK? Here's why mental health providers should ask about screen time.

We all use recreational screens, but how much is OK? Here's why mental health providers should ask about screen time.

The Argument Against Video Game Addiction

Can you really be addicted to video games? Here's why many mental health professionals are skeptical about the diagnosis.

Can you really be addicted to video games? Here's why many mental health professionals are skeptical about the diagnosis.

The Argument for Video Game Addiction

Can people really be addicted to video games? Why many mental health professionals believe it is possible.

Can people really be addicted to video games? Why many mental health professionals believe it is possible.

Healthy Internet Use and Gaming: Strategies for Parents

Most parents strive to promote healthy internet use and limit gaming. Here are six ways of thinking about screens and devices—and seven practical recommendations—that can help.

Most parents strive to promote healthy internet use and limit gaming. Here are six ways of thinking about screens and devices—and seven practical recommendations—that can help.

Dumb Phones Are Smarter Than You Think

Excessive social media use increases the risk of depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. The answer may be in the palm of your hand.

Excessive social media use increases the risk of depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. The answer may be in the palm of your hand.

The Dark Side of Video Gaming

Excessive gaming can stealthily sabotage someone's sleep, diet, and personal hygiene. Stay informed, and game responsibly.

Excessive gaming can stealthily sabotage someone's sleep, diet, and personal hygiene. Stay informed, and game responsibly.

Why So Many Teens Use Video Games to Meet Others

Why are so many young people using video games to make friends? Often, it's because they have nowhere else to go.

Why are so many young people using video games to make friends? Often, it's because they have nowhere else to go.

Video Games Have No Impact on Players’ Views of Women

Video games are huge, and critics point out that many depict women as playthings, but a recent analysis of 18 studies shows they are socially benign.

Video games are huge, and critics point out that many depict women as playthings, but a recent analysis of 18 studies shows they are socially benign.

How People Shed Their Conscience

Why is it so easy for people to shed their consciences and become game-players, conniving while acting like saints? The difference between games and life provides a clue.

Why is it so easy for people to shed their consciences and become game-players, conniving while acting like saints? The difference between games and life provides a clue.

Why It's So Hard to Walk Away From a Video Game

Why is it so hard to turn off a video game at the end of the night? What can we do when we spend hours telling ourselves "just one more minute and then I'll stop"?

Why is it so hard to turn off a video game at the end of the night? What can we do when we spend hours telling ourselves "just one more minute and then I'll stop"?

"Is Too Much Minecraft Bad for My Child?"

How parents can turn a kid's passion for video games—or anything else—into a lifelong desire for learning.

How parents can turn a kid's passion for video games—or anything else—into a lifelong desire for learning.

10 Steps to Manage Kids' Screen Time

Screen time requires balance and planning. These 10 strategies start with the least restrictive and help when it gets out of hand.

Screen time requires balance and planning. These 10 strategies start with the least restrictive and help when it gets out of hand.

Screen Time Doesn’t Have to Mean Scream Time

Parents' love-hate relationships with screens have never been more apparent. Here are a few tips for approaching screen time.

Parents' love-hate relationships with screens have never been more apparent. Here are a few tips for approaching screen time.

Study Suggests Video Games Do Not Impact Well-Being

A study of nearly 40,000 people concluded that video games did not affect how much people were satisfied with their lives. Is the study right?

A study of nearly 40,000 people concluded that video games did not affect how much people were satisfied with their lives. Is the study right?

How Screens Interfere With The Innate Drive to Socialise

Constant screen stimulation competes with growing brain pathways for socialization & emotional intelligence. Infants read people before they can speak, but for how much longer?

Constant screen stimulation competes with growing brain pathways for socialization & emotional intelligence. Infants read people before they can speak, but for how much longer?

Why Neurotechnologies May Help Your Child With ADHD

Can video game–based neurotechnology really help kids with ADHD? Novel screen-based technologies show great promise for improving attention, executive functions, and social and emotional learning.

Can video game–based neurotechnology really help kids with ADHD? Novel screen-based technologies show great promise for improving attention, executive functions, and social and emotional learning.

Can’t Pry Your Kids Away from Electronics?

Worried about your child's overuse of technology? These science-based strategies can help them develop healthier habits.

Worried about your child's overuse of technology? These science-based strategies can help them develop healthier habits.

Love in the Time of Wordle

Wordle is a one-person game but it could have two-person consequences.

Wordle is a one-person game but it could have two-person consequences.

5 Practices for Healthier Internet Use

With every click, we wager our time, attention, and mental well-being for a jackpot of intermittent neural rewards. Here are five ways to better manage our engagement.

With every click, we wager our time, attention, and mental well-being for a jackpot of intermittent neural rewards. Here are five ways to better manage our engagement.

Deciding When to Succumb to Temptation

Having some of these questions in the back of your mind may help you make wiser decisions about how to cope with urges like procrastination, spending, cinnamon rolls, and more.

Having some of these questions in the back of your mind may help you make wiser decisions about how to cope with urges like procrastination, spending, cinnamon rolls, and more.

Safe Escapism or Optimal Illusion Is the Key to Our Survival

A Personal Perspective: To become realistic enough to endure human extinction, we will have to get better at exercising our need for magical thinking in our off-hours.

A Personal Perspective: To become realistic enough to endure human extinction, we will have to get better at exercising our need for magical thinking in our off-hours.