What is the appropriate place of a phone or other electronic device in your child’s life and your own? And what lessons are you teaching (and should you teach) your child, not through words, but through actions? These are two important questions to ask yourself.
Marti shares in her blog post for Natural Mental Health these 5 questions to help determine the messages you send – and the messages you want to send – to your children through your use of electronic devices:
1) Do I set specific times to check email, text messages or social media when I’m at home, or am I always “on call” and jumping to reply whenever I hear the electronic beep?
2) During my personal free time, do I balance device use with other healthy activities?
3) Have I designated certain family activities as device-free times?
4) Do I set and enforce time limits on screen-time sessions for my children and myself?
5) Do I tell my child, in language they can understand, why I am taking charge of my device use rather than letting my devices take charge of me?
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