It may feel awkward, but talking to babies and toddlers about media can help to build their communication and social emotional skills while developing their healthy engagement with technology and media. We offer strategies for talking to your pre-verbal child about what they’re seeing on a screen.
In this installment of Ask the Mediatrician, we offer a parent of a teenager strategies to help him break the mindless habit of staying up all night binge watching and doomscrolling and otherwise losing sleep by spending time mindlessly online.
In this installment of Ask the Mediatrician, we offer a parent guidance for what to do when her middle-schooler is begging to see an R-rated movie all his friends have already seen.
In this installment of Ask the Mediatrician, we offer a parent of a toddler guidance regarding the use of e-books for reading together.
It’s not easy for a child when their friends get things they don’t. In this post, we offer some conversation starters for helping your child deal with their envy and FOMO and to understand where you’re coming from.
The Digital Wellness Lab surveyed real parents to find out how they feel about their child’s media use and remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the pandemic has made a big impact on the lives of all of us, school-aged children and teens have faced some unique disruptions…
Welcome to the Digital Wellness Lab! Over the past year, what we used to call the virtual world has become… the world. The global pandemic instantaneously shifted nearly every human activity – school, work, transactions, relationships, important life rituals – into the interactive screen media environment.