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How to Cut Children’s Screen Time? Say No to Yourself First

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Paul Rogers
"Young children learn by example, often copying the behavior of adults...  Two common parental behaviors... can strongly influence a child’s tendency to abuse electronic media. Some parents are perpetually tuned into their own devices, responding to every ping of their cellphones and tablets... Other parents fail to establish and enforce appropriate rules for media engagement by their children."

How to Cut Children’s Screen Time? Say No to Yourself First.
by Jane E. Brody, The New York Times, 
13 July 2015

Parents are often at fault, directly or indirectly, when children and teenagers become hooked on electronic media, playing video games or sending texts many hours a day instead of interacting with the real world and the people in it. And as discussed in last week’s column, digital overload can impair a child’s social, emotional and intellectual growth.
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