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Thinking about technology




Below is a quote I copied from NYTimes a while ago. It was about how to evaluate our children's time in front of screens. At the time I found it useful. But back then school, for so many children, hadn't been reframed within screens like it has now.



"The first thing parents should do is go through a mental-health checklist to determine whether screen time has gotten out of hand, said David Anderson, a clinical psychologist at the nonprofit Child Mind Institute. Are your kids getting enough sleep? Are they exercising? Are they eating when they should? Are they invested in their schoolwork? Are they having enough face-to-face time with family? Do they resist when you ask them to turn off the videogame or stop scrolling Instagram?"


“Screens themselves aren’t intrinsically harmful, it’s the things they push out—the things we need for mental health and wellness,” he said."


And because we still live within the frame of a COVID world, it has to be even harder to find things to do outside of a screen. I know it's hard for me. I have been streaming a movie and made myself come back here to work on Family History. Some of that involves a screen, and look what I'm doing, writing a post to my blog!


I just keep trying to do things I used to that didn't involve screens. If the humidity and mosquitoes would go away I'd find it much easier to do outside work, exercise, or play. I'm practicing reading paper books and paying more attention to household chores. Not sure what else I can do. What are you doing?



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