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Screen Time & Technology Resources
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Child Mind Institute: Screen Time & Technology
Setting limits with technology helps kids to learn to use screens in a healthy way as too much time online can impact self-esteem and make them feel anxious and sad.
The Child Mind Institute is an independent, national nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of children and families struggling with mental health and learning disorders. Teams work every day to deliver the highest standards of care, advance the science of the developing brain and empower parents, professionals and policymakers to support children when and where they need it most.
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Family Digital Wellness Guide
With technology constantly evolving, it is understood that parents and caregivers may feel concerned, confused, or even guilty about their decisions around their children’s use of screens. Instead of worrying about how you’re handling your child’s technology use, ask yourself, “How can I help my child utilize interactive media in a way that creates a positive effect on their overall mental and physical health?”
Research shows that technology and digital media, when used with intention, can support well-being, Boston Children's Hospital has designed this guide to empower families as they navigate their way through the ongoing process of intentional engagement with these powerful tools, both online and off.
Boston Children's Hospital Digital Wellness Lab believes that by following the science, we can create an empathetic and respectful world in which our kids can grow up healthy, smart, and kind.
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Healthy Screen Habits
Select the tools that will help you plan how to mindfully use technology. We've curated some of the best books, websites, podcasts, and articles that will provide the information you need to make wise choices in how you manage screen time.
The Family Technology Plan allows you to sit down together and develop a guide for screen use and best practices in your home. (The Family Technology Plan is also available in Spanish).
Healthy Screen Habits is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit that empowers families to create healthy habits for screen use, and to maintain technology as a tool– never as a replacement– for human connection. They bring awareness, so people understand the effects of technology and social media use on the brain and well-being.
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The Smart Talk
The Smart Talk is a free tool that helps caregivers and kids (ages five to 17) have positive, proactive technology conversations and set healthy digital limits together.
Families using the free The Smart Talk website are guided through topic areas to create a personalized technology agreement that helps keep everyone on track.
The Smart Talk, developed in partnership with Norton, is a free online tool that helps adults and kids have these important conversations together. It allows kids to actively participate in setting healthy limits around device use, digital safety, privacy, communication and media choices. The Smart Talk is set up to provide families with flexibility- walk through one topic at a time and save your work to have discussions at your own pace. At the end of your family’s conversation, a personalized family technology agreement is created based on individual responses.
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SmartSocial
Over 400 resources to help parents & educators keep students safe on social media, so they can shine online. SmartSocial also has a comprehensive YouTube page with some short videos related to the dangers/safety of online habits.
SmartSocial helps 1.5 million people each year to keep their students safe and positive on social media. The app puts expert tips and app guides in your pocket to be accessible anytime and anywhere. SmartSocial.com believes that the internet can be a good thing, but there are a lot of misconceptions about how families should approach it. The SmartSocial team helps to bring families up to speed on their digital footprint.
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Operation Parent
Operation Parent has practical guidebooks for parents/guardians/caregivers which all have a section on 21st Century Technology. Operation Parent also has a webinar library with videos on topics such as: -
Protect Young Eyes
A blog that explains the latest digital trends. Protect Young Eyes also offers 30-minute practical and actionable Webinar Series.
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Parenting in a Tech World
A book for the digital age- Parenting in a Tech World is an instruction manual that will help you find answers to common questions like how do you know when your child is ready for a smart phone or what apps are the most dangerous for my 13-year-old?
Bark's all-in-one safety solution enables you to monitor content, manage screen time, and filter websites so you can get peace of mind while your child is online.
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Book: Glow Kids
In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras examines how technology has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain’s pleasure center. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis.