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Parenting Strategies

The Realistic Screen Time Rules That All Rational Parents Should Follow

One Glorious, Uplifting, Totally Positive Long Weekend as a Screen-Free Family

By Tyghe Trimble

Study: Toddlers Struggle to Learn from Screens

Ask the Goodfather

Help! My Kid's Cell Phone Use Ruined My Vacation

By Patrick A. Coleman

Ask the Goodfather

Help! My Wife Is Too Relaxed With Summer Screen Time

By Patrick A. Coleman

Fatherly Voices

My 7-Year-Old Son Doesn’t Have Screen Time Rules and It’s Working Out Fine

By Anthony Mariani

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My 7-Year-Old Doesn’t Watch Any TV (and Doesn’t Want To) We're not super-uptight about it. We're just doing other things.

Father & Child Relationships

How '60 Minutes' Got Screen Time Wrong A new Anderson Cooper report warns parents that screens are warping their kids' brains. Maybe. Maybe not. Science isn't that simple.

What I Learned About Screen Time by Watching My Kid Watch TV Despite endless reporting about the death of the 30-second spot, don't buy it. Kids love toy commercials.

Father & Child Relationships

Too Much Political News Is Bad for People, Specifically Parents In our modern media era where political news dominates, parents are affected in a particularly harmful way.

I Applied My Kids Screen Time Limits to Myself Want to take a harsh look in the mirror? Download's Apple's new app. For me, it was brutal.

Father & Child Relationships

The Twitter-Free Parenting Disaster It turns out that the draw of social media wasn’t what was keeping me glued to my phone. It was a lack of real-world coping skills.

This $30 Lap Desk Saved My Swimmers I thought lap desks were lamer than fanny packs. Once I begrudgingly bought one, I realized their purpose.

What Happens When You Stop Checking Your Email in the Morning "Instead of me telling my day where it goes, my day was telling me where I was going to go. I wanted to change that."

I Banned Tech From My House and Got Closer to My Family Frustrated by the distance created by screen time, I banned modern tech from the house and lived in an analog world of occasional inconvenience and family togetherness.

Should I Let My Kid Play 'Toy Blast'? Toy Blast, the incredibly popular puzzle game for kids, is a lot of fun and easy to learn. But it should also be used with caution.

These 6 'Dumb Phones' Let Your Kids Talk, Text, and, Well, That's It These simple devices let your kids communicate but offer no distractions along the way.

6 Apps for Controlling and Limiting Kids’ Screen Time They help you do everything from block problematic sites to set weekly screen-time limits.

This Is the Best Parental Control Hardware Around It combines website screening, time-management, service pausing, malware protection, and more in one slim, easy-to-set-up package.

Deal: This Excellent Kid-Friendly Tablet Only $47 Today The LeapPad is loaded with great learning apps and has excellent parental controls. Plus, it's tough enough to handle that toddler lifestyle.

How I Helped My Kids Overcome their 'Fortnite' Addiction "I thought I was overreacting. But then I walked in on them a couple of times, and I saw the game in play. They were so rabid about it."

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