Tag: social media
Social Media and Screen Time: Protect Your Child’s Mental Health
Posted onIn today’s digital age, social media has become an integral part of our children’s lives. Recently, the U.S. Surgeon General released a comprehensive report on social media and youth mental health, shedding light on both the […]
Summer Unplugged: Encourage Kids to Get Off Screens and Outdoors
Posted onAs summer approaches, many parents find themselves facing a familiar challenge: how to pry their children away from screens and encourage them to enjoy the great outdoors. At Peace At Home Parenting Solutions, we understand this […]
What we can learn from Wall Street Journal’s Article: “Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show?”
Posted onWhat we can learn from the recent Wall Street Journal article detailing what Facebook did and did not know about the effect of Instagram use on the mental health of girls? It’s more important to open communication with our daughters than to worry about whether or not they use Instagram. There is certainly a crisis of mental health with our adolescents, and while Instagram might be making matters worse, it didn’t start the fire, so to speak.
Enjoy Watching Navigate Screen Time: The New Normal FB Live Event
Posted onEnjoy Ruth Freeman LCSW, Amy Alamar Ed D, Autumn Cloud-Ingram LMSW and Aaron Weintraub MS as they discuss navigating screen time during this new normal. Now more than ever, screen time is a fact of life […]