What we model digitally is more important than what we say about screen time. If we as parents are totally consumed all our waking hours with electronic media of any kind, we are communicating, “This is what life is about. This is the norm.” Too often parents give the right message but in the wrong manner. We tell our children to limit screen time, but then we spend hours online after work. We say social media is unhealthy, but we’ve got Facebook running in the background. We say video games are a waste of time and then spend two hours after work unwinding with a game. As one child said, “My
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