Parenting and Smartphone Rules

[Dr. Elizabeth Englander] Kids can sometimes kind of be saturated with the idea of safety, but they can be very receptive to the idea of health, and so sometimes posing things not so much as, you know, “What rules will keep you safe?”, but also “What rules will keep you healthy?” “How can we focus our rules so that you have time to play outside, so that you have time to help us cook dinner, so that you have time to play games with the family so that we have a Sunday now and then where we all put our devices away and go for a hike together?” Anything like that, where you’re sort of emphasizing to them that, “Yes, we’re all going to have to live with technology, but we also have to have a life and we have to be healthy. And that means we have to have relationships and mental health and we have to talk with each other and and all these other things.”