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Jeff Jarvis Jan 26, 2024

This starts by acknowledging that teens are not "mindless screen zombies" and moderate their own phone use but then turns right around into #MoralPanic about screen addiction. Yeesh.
How to get your kids (and yourself) to put down the phone https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/26/how-to-reduce-screen-time-kids/

How to get your kids (and yourself) to put down the phone

Four strategies to reset your family’s relationship with screen time from the surgeon general, parents and researchers who know what kids actually do online.

Washington Post

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@jeffjarvis it was that they shouldn’t be on the computer so much, before they shouldn’t play video games so much, then they shouldn’t watch so much TV, then they shouldn’t read books so much, they need to get out in nature and exercising … isn’t it always something? Whatever is the new thing is the bad thing. Why do people read their phones at dinner? As opposed to a book, magazine or newspaper? The new thing is always the bad thing. Whatever was older was better. It’s exhausting.