Commentary: We wised up about kids and screens
by Naomi Schaefer Riley, Los Angeles Times
Jan 09, 2019
3 minutes
In 2014, when I started to write a book about the need to restrict the amount of time our kids spend on screens, the idea was not a popular one. The research I'd done persuaded me to set a tight policy for my own elementary-school children: No television or playing on tablets on weekdays. But I knew my family's rules were considered draconian. And my plan to keep smartphones out of my kids' hands until they were teenagers was practically bonkers.
But after a
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