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With Kids Stuck Indoors All Day, How Do You Moderate Tech Time?

TARPOLY CREEK, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 05: Sybella Bowman, 12, does school work at her family home and cattle property on April 05, 2020 in Tarpoly Creek, Australia. Emily Bowman, mother of three, believes the current internet situation highlights "the great divide between city and country." She is currently paying $400 per month for a recently expanded package and considering hiring a space in Tamworth (100 km away from her home) so she can access better internet to home school her children. " We are in the technological dark ages in rural Australia, the service is expensive and unreliable", stated Emily. As boarding schools have closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many rural families are now teaching their children from home. With no access to high-speed fixed-line connections they rely solely on satellite internet which is proving problematic and costly, particularly for the use of streaming and video apps such as Zoom - a prominent component in most online teaching. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)
Sybella Bowman, 12, does school work at her family home and cattle property on April 05, 2020 in Tarpoly Creek, Australia.
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With Kids Stuck Indoors All Day, How Do You Moderate Tech Time?

Whether your kids want an extra hour of animal crossing, a few more minutes to chat with their friends or a few more episodes to finish their show, setting limits on screen time during this time when everyone’s stuck at home can be a challenge. 

And with school time being virtual, it’s becoming more difficult to regulate and monitor screen time for kids. And with parents on their own devices, for work and for play, it can also be a challenge to model good behavior. 

How are you discussing and regulating tech time for your kids? What have been the challenges? What strategies have worked for you? Call us at 866-893-5722.

Guest:

Yalda T. Uhls, adjunct professor of child psychology at UCLA and founder of The Center for Scholars & Storytellers; she is also a senior advisor at Common Sense Media, a nonprofit aiming to help kids and parents navigate media and technology and the author of "Media Moms & Digital Dads: A Fact-Not-Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age" (Routledge, 2015); she tweets