How to Reduce Kid's Screen Time: Set the Example

Wondering how you can reduce the amount of time your children spend interacting with digital devices? A New York Times article offers some suggestions. These include:

1. A link to “Outsmarting the Smart Screens: A Parent’s Guide to the Tools That Are Here to Help”
2. A link to Harvard's "Food & Fun" online curriculum, which includes physical activities kids can do instead of using their electronic devices.
3. Don't allow children to "have their own cellphones or televisions in their bedrooms."
4. Parents need to learn to interact socially without electronic devices.  (In other words, set the example.)
5. Create and enforce rules regarding the use of electronic media.

To learn more, read the original article here: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/how-to-cut-childrens-screen-time-say-no-to-yourself-first