How To Set Screen Time Limits With Your Kids
We’ve all seen the headlines about today’s teen mental health crisis: Kids are struggling. What makes today’s devices different from the TV, Estes told HuffPost, is “interactivity.” “It’s a lot more stimulation,” he said, “and for developing brains, that has a lot of addictiveness to it, literally driving a kind of dopamine feedback loop that makes kids just start to feel that if they don’t get enough of it that something’s wrong — much like a narcotic.” martin-dm via Getty Images Digital security company Aura analyzed data from 31,000 devices and found that kids spend, on average, an aggregate of three months of the year online. But in today’s digital world, the consequence of not setting a boundary “is higher and higher in terms of our kids’ mental health,” Kennedy said. That feels really bad to kids.” But you also don’t want to take on an authoritarian tone and lay down the law with a “Because I said so.” Kennedy believes you can both acknowledge your kids’ feelings and uphold the boundary, saying instead something like, “I want to let you know about something that’s going to shift with screen time. Putting time limits on kids’ screen use and monitoring their use were also correlated with less screen time, and less “problematic” use that showed addictive behaviors.
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