Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU)
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Family Guide to Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU)
The world in which young people are growing up today is dramatically different from the world of their parents’ youth. Nearly 100% of teens report having access to a smartphone or home computer, and, even before pandemic lockdowns drove us further online, nearly half of teens reported that they were online “almost constantly”. Adolescents are
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Ask the Experts: Teens and Bingewatching and Doomscrolling
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.
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Family Digital Wellness: When is the Internet a Problem?
In this webinar, you’ll learn about addressing and reducing the negative consequences of Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU), while helping children, adolescents, and young adults in your life adopt and sustain healthy lifestyles and behaviors.
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Is my child’s relationship with screens healthy?
In this webinar, you’ll learn about Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU) – how to recognize it and respond to it in the young people you care for and how to foster healthy digital habits as a family.