Inside: Tips to help you guide your child towards a healthy, balanced relationship with screens this summer, and all year long. Get our latest news, and more!
As Executive Director of the Lab — and the proud parent of an eight year old — I spend my days thinking about how to help kids develop an authentic, intentional, and balanced relationship with technology. During the school year, when my son is busy with school, homework, and sports, it’s easier to help him manage his screen time. But during the summer months, with long days lacking the structure of school year routines, it’s challenging for him to not turn to screens for entertainment at the expense of other activities. Sound familiar?
In this month’s blog post, Navigating Summertime #Screentime, we explore best practices for parenting around screen use, delve into the benefits of boredom, and provide age-appropriate tips to help you guide your child towards a healthy, balanced relationship with screens this summer, and all year long. (The guidance here is even more timely given the Surgeon General’s recent op-ed in the New York Times, which featured the Lab’s research and called for greater awareness and intentionality around kids’ social media use.)
In related news, our 2023-24 Family Digital Wellness Guide, our most popular resource, is now available in Spanish, equipping more families with the tools they need to promote digital wellbeing in their homes.
We hope you’ll find these new resources helpful as you and your family head into summer!
All our best,
Cori Stott Executive Director The Digital Wellness Lab
We believe that by following the science, we can create an empathetic and respectful world in which our kids can grow up healthy, smart, and kind.
Resources for Parents & Caregivers
CONVERSATIONS WITH CLINICIANS
Deirdre Logan, PhD, discusses the opportunities and challenges for kids growing up in our digitally-saturated world
Identifying & Addressing Problematic Interactive Media Use
Thursday, 24 October
9:00am - 1:00pm VIRTUAL
Join clinicians and researchers from the Clinic for Interactive Media and Internet Disorders to dive more deeply into the methods of identification of PIMU, including hallmarks and comorbidities of the syndrome, and strategies for addressing PIMU in primary care and educational settings.
This course is fully virtual. If you are unable to attend on October 24th, register anyway — the full course will be available on demand for six weeks after the course date.
This CME course has been approved for 4.0 credits for physicians, nurses, PAs, psychologists, and social workers.
We’re continuing to spark the crucial conversations around building a better digital world for our future generations:
At the inaugural Digital Parenthood Summit in New York, Dr. Michael Rich co-presented on what we might see if tech investors, designers, policymakers prioritized the voices and futures of their young users.
Dr. Michael Rich presented on a Screens and Children’s Wellbeing panel at the Center for Universal Education at Brookings Institution to share the latest evidence on technology’s impact on mental health and education.
Nicole Powell heads to the Ohio Health Improvement Summit to give a presentation, Connecting the Dots: Digital Practices to Foster Mental Wellness Among Youth, which will define digital wellness, discuss best practices for device management and digital safety, and emphasize the importance of being resilient.
At the 74th Annual International Communication Association conference in Australia, Michael Carter, PhD will be in-person to present his paper on social media places and environments, and Zoey Yue, PhD will be virtually presenting a co-authored paper which unveils the evolving correlation between patient-provider communication quality and social media use for health-related purposes.
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