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What The Screen Time Experts Do With Their Own Kids

Many of these experts are also parents, and their work informs their approach to making rules with their kids about phones, TV and other media.
Source: Raymond Biesinger for NPR

Parents today struggle to set screen time guidelines.

One big reason is a lack of role models. Grandma doesn't have any tried-and-true sayings about iPad time. This stuff is just too new.

But, many experts on kids and media are also parents themselves. So when I was interviewing dozens of them for my book The Art of Screen Time, I asked them how they made screen time rules at home.

None of them held themselves up as paragons, but it was interesting to see how

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