A pediatrician and mom shares ways parents can break their own phone addiction.
by as much as 60-80% over the last few years. The reassuring thing is if you're using your screen to read what’s happening in the world, watch a documentary, check in with the grandparents or, you know, work, that's all good, say the experts. The slippery slope seems to be if you are mindlessly scrolling at the expense of talking with your family or winding down for bed.
. She instituted it because her husband was having a hard time looking up: "With his phone away, the kids really have his presence for two hours. Then once they go to bed, he can get on it again." She says that friends and family instantly adjusted to the fact that no one in their house responds to messages in the evening. "It's freeing," admits Cross.
. But the part that sticks out to me is "set a good example with your own safe and healthy screen habits." We know that kids watch everything we do and then enrage us later by mimicking us. Says Cross, "You should try to do your less important stuff — surfing the internet, whatever — during the time when you're not trying to engage with them. Otherwise, they are going to do that back to you when they get a device of their own.
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