When an aunt said no to screen time at 8 p.m., her young nephew reacted by throwing his dinner plate at her. His mom blames the aunt for not letting him 'self-soothe' with his tablet.
followed the boundaries set by mom. “She gets berated for holding a boundary and her approach to caring for her niece and nephew seems to be ridiculed and belittled with the comment that she should ‘educate herself on modern parenting’,” said the expert, adding that it seems the mom had a hard time with her son on her return home, and projected this onto her sister’s caregiving capacity.
More than ten years later, she says she has well-rounded and happy children. And too she has become an expert in the field.“Some people jump to the conclusion that modern parenting is allowing their kids to live without rules, expectations, or values of any kind,”Ballinger. “The stereotype of the kids setting the tone of the household and getting away with everything is often the knee-jerk image for some people.
The paper further notes that three-quarters of American children and adolescents have at least one screen media device in their bedroom, “with roughly 60% reporting regular use of these devices during the hour before bedtime.” “There are no studies I am aware of looking at the use of tablets/screens to help a child fall asleep,” said Deiros Collado during our interview. “But there are some studies suggesting that it is best for children and adults to spend the last 30min-1hr or so, before going to bed, doing things that don’t involve screens.” The expert says this allows “our brains to switch off, and get a good dose of the natural sleepy hormone ‘melatonin’ that will help us drift off to sleep.
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