Toddlers don’t need firm screen time limits, new Canadian guidance says
Coulter is part of a research group that interviewed parents of kids aged four to 12 about screen use during the pandemic. The study includes 15 families in Canada, along with more in Australia, Colombia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, China and the United States.
“I have two girls I totally struggle with it, it’s not like I have these brilliant answers. But I think, like anything, as soon as you put down really hard binary rules, then it kind of shuts down dialogue a little bit.”Matthew Johnson, director of education at the Ottawa-based group MediaSmarts, acknowledges a tricky tightrope when it comes to messaging.
“It will make it seem as though if you can’t reach that guideline, because it’s too unrealistic, then there’s nothing that you can do to manage the role of screens playing in your family. I think it’s much more valuable to give parents strategies for establishing positive uses and positive relationships with screens.
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