For the last decade, we have worried intensely about what screens are doing to our children. But a new feature from The Inquisitive Parent reveals the latest research indicates we need to turn the lens around. We need to look at what our screen use is doing to them.
It is a scene that plays out in living rooms across the world every evening. The dinner dishes are cleared. The television is perhaps on, or homework is being done at the kitchen table. You are sitting on the sofa, physically present, perhaps even within arm’s reach of your teenager.
But your phone is in your hand. You are not scrolling social media; you are replying to a “quick” email from a colleague or approving a document that came in late. You are being responsible. You are providing for your family. To you, this moment is a necessary compromise - a way to manage adult responsibilities while still being home.
