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How to Raise a Child With a Healthy Relationship to Screens

Screen time has a high cost that we usually avoid acknowledging. Here's how to limit kids' screen use and keep them safe online.

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Your Toddler or Preschooler and Screens

How much screen time should your Toddler or Preschooler have? Are you ready? In my opinion, no daily time on an ongoing basis. Here's why.

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Staying Close to Your Tween Daughter

If you can adjust your parenting to her new needs, the tween years are the perfect time to strengthen your relationship with your preteen daughter.

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How Screens Affect Children’s Brains, Attention, and Emotional Development

Worried about screen time and your child’s development? Learn how screens affect attention, emotions, and learning—and what parents can do.

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Need a Screen Reset? How to Reduce Screen Time Without Daily Battles

Your child melts down when screens end? Learn how to reduce screen time without battles, set limits calmly, and help your child build self-regulation.

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Your Age-by-Age Guide to Screen-Free Activities Your Child Can Do With Minimal Supervision

An age by age list of screen-free activities to keep kids busy without much assistance from parents.

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When Should Kids Get a Smart Phone? Rules for the First Phone

Wondering when your child is ready for a phone? How to delay smartphones, set rules, use parental controls, and keep your child safer online.

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Internet Safety for Kids: How to Keep Your Child Safe Online

Worried about your child’s online safety? Learn the biggest risks, simple rules that work, and how to help your child use the internet safely without constant battles.

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Children, Body Image, and Eating

As parents, we have influence on our kids’ development of a healthy body image, including a healthy emotional life and a healthy attitude toward food and exercise.

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The Gift of a Screen-Free December

Some families agree to drastically reduce screen time during the holidays, simply to reduce the pressure to be perfect – and perfectly consuming! – families.