Why Parents Shouldn't Feel Guilt About Their Kids' Screen Time - The Atlantic - 3 views
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There’s a tendency to portray time spent away from screens as idyllic, and time spent in front of them as something to panic about.
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the most successful strategy, far from exiling technology, actually embraces it.
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if the “off” switch is the only tool parents use to shape their kids’ experience of the Internet, they won’t do a very good job of preparing them for a world in which more and more technologies are switched on every year.
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A fascinating approach to the role of the parent in raising good digital citizens. "..children of limiters who are most likely to engage in problematic behavior: They're twice as likely as the children of mentors to access porn, or to post rude or hostile comments online; they're also three times as likely to go online and impersonate a classmate, peer, or adult."