ScreenTime features conversations with experts and researchers to help parents navigate the challenges that come with parenting in the digital age.
Latest episodes
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11 min
The ‘double-edged sword’ of social media in adolescent mental health
Researcher Danny Muñoz Lopez studies the connection between media use and adolescent mental health and wellbeing. While the focus often centers on mental harms from technologies li…
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13 min
Developing identity in a digital world
Adolescence is a time of enormous social, emotional, and physical change and development. A central part of that development, as kids enter those early teenage years, is developing…
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14 min
Takeaways from large-scale childhood study
To measure the long-lasting impacts screen time use may be having on our kids, major long-running science-based research is needed. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study…
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11 min
How to approach cyberbullying with your kids
Bullying has grown beyond just the schoolyard. As children’s social lives have moved increasingly online in recent years, the problem of cyberbullying has become a top concern for…
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15 min
What to know about video game addiction
What does video game addiction look like and what can we do about it? Dr. Clifford Sussman is a child psychiatrist who specializes in video game and internet addiction. He defines…
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16 min
What we know about how screens impact on kids
Researcher and pediatrician Dr. Jason Nagata shares what he’s learned about screen time and its impact on the long term health of young people. His evidence-based research has led…
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15 min
Approaching screen time with nuance
Often, discussions around screen time and kids can feel like an all-or-nothing approach to screens is needed. Dr. Michael Rich prefers a more nuanced approach. The pediatrician and…
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2 min
ScreenTime trailer
Being a parent today means having to manage our children’s digital lives. Playgrounds aren’t just outdoors anymore, and childhood is spent increasingly on screens in digital spaces…