TikTok’s Screen-Time Limits Are the Real Distraction
My first cell phone was a brick-shaped Nokia with a couple hundred minutes loaded onto it. My parents gave it to me when I got my first car, on the…
How Your Kids Can Actually Benefit From Screen Time
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) As adults, it’s impossible to escape the use of screens, both at work and at home—and for kids, it’s increasingly no different. Given how much more screen…
How to Get Through Bedtime When You’re Solo-Parenting
Photo: SeventyFour (Shutterstock) If you’re a parent of small children, you probably face the nightly bedtime routine with some amount of dread. There are so many to-do’s, moving, slippery parts,…
How to Reduce Your Family’s Screen Time (Now That It’s Totally Out of Control)
Photo: Leszek Glasner (Shutterstock) In a simpler, more innocent time, limiting screen time was cited by many parents as one of their major parenting concerns. In a 2019 Pew Research…
How to Detox Kids From Their Screens
Photo: somsak nitimongkolchai (Shutterstock) When the pandemic hit last year, the first thing many parents did was abandon any rules they had in place about screen time. It’s not because…
Earn $2,400 for Doing a 24-Hour Digital Detox
Photo: Iryna Imago (Shutterstock) Even those who had a relatively healthy relationship with technology prior to the pandemic may now find themselves in a different position—one where they’re interacting with…
How to Dial Back Your Kid’s Out-of-Control Screen Time
Photo: BlurryMe (Shutterstock) At the beginning of the pandemic, parents everywhere agreed: A little extra screen time was not going to hurt our kids. In many cases, particularly for older…
Start Preparing Your Kids for Daylight Saving Time Now
Photo: Olga Kurguzova (Shutterstock) When we spring our clocks forward an hour next Sunday, March 14, we will be left feeling groggy and maybe a little cranky as Monday morning…
How to Fall Asleep After Waking Up
Photo: Tero Vesalainen (Shutterstock) For many people, sleeping isn’t easy. Roughly 70 million Americans suffer from some kind of sleep disorder, according to the Cleveland Clinic, and around 100 million…