Digital Life · Screens
Screens, phones, and family life
Common Sense Media on the practical question of how to live with screens, more than the moral question of whether to.
Common Sense Media7 min read
Common Sense Media is the most-used independent source for age-based media guidance in the U.S. Their screen-time hub treats the question as one of fit, content, and context — not raw minutes — and includes specific guidance for toddlers through teens.
Useful alongside the Surgeon General's advisory and the AAP's Family Media Plan, which lets a household actually write down what it wants the relationship with screens to look like.
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