The Shifting Digital Divide: Screen Time and Digital Use as an Equity Issue

Setting screen-time limits -- and helping kids moderate their own habits -- are all about finding the right balance for your family's needs and lifestyle. We offer advice for creating a realistic schedule, setting age-appropriate guidelines on TV time, finding the first websites for young kids to use, handling violent media, and managing kids' cell phone use.

By creating a Personalized Family Media Use Plan, you can be aware of when you are using media to achieve your purpose. This requires parents & users to think about what they want those purposes to be. The tool below will help you to think about media & create goals & rules that are in line with your family’s values.

Cuando usted crea un plan del consumo mediático individualizado para su familia, puede darse cuenta de cómo consume los medios digitales y así lograr sus objetivos. Esto requiere que los padres y los que consumen el contenido mediático decidan cuáles son los objetivos que quieren lograr. La siguiente herramienta le ayudará a pensar en sus hábitos de consumo mediático y a establecer objetivos y reglas que sean acordes con los valores de su familia.

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Learn how to manage parental controls on iPhones, Androids, gaming systems, and every device in between to ensure anything your kid gets her hands on is safe.

Working to make the online world safer for kids and their families through enlightened public policy, industry best practice and good digital parenting.

This simple 12 question Child Technology Test will help you determine if your child is suffering from Digital Distraction. Our short test can help you see if your child may be too digitally connected and that you may want to help your child step away from the devices and “Plug Back into Life…”