From: The Wall Street Journal
Your Screen-Time Rules or Mine?
The Wall Street Journal:
It can be a sticky situation for parents: Your 8-year-old’s new friend plays videogames for several hours every day, but you set tight limits on your own child’s screen time. Or your 9-year-old’s friends all use Instagram on their cellphones, years before you intend to even let your daughter have a phone. Can you control what happens on a play date?
While families’ rules differ in many areas, they often seem especially divergent when it comes to children’s media use. What’s available for children, and what’s popular, changes all the time. And parents have differing levels of comfort and familiarity with new platforms.
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Parents at this stage usually shouldn’t insist that their rules be followed in other parents’ homes, says Yalda T. Uhls, a research psychologist with the Children’s Digital Media Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. It isn’t wise to forbid your child from using the apps or games their friends find enthralling either, because this “can create a sense of longing” and make your child want to use them even more, says Dr. Uhls, author of “Media Moms and Digital Dads.”
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