Articles & Research regarding screen time
- GENERAL INFO
- TV Tantrum – Screen Time Stimulation scores
- The Balance Phone
- Common Sense Media
- Tech-Safe Learning Coalition
- A study of 292,000 children finds that screen use both predicts and follows emotional struggles
- Open AI Introducing Parental Controls
- IRISH WEBSITES
- Cybersafekids.ie
- Smartphone Free Childhood
- Smartphone Free Childhood – Delay for secondary
- Banning the use of and access to personal mobile phones by pupils during the school day
- Over 100 children identified by gardaí in online abuse investigation
- Reclaiming childhood from big tech
- Smartphone use driving surge in addiction, says expert
- NEWSPAPERS ARTICLES
- Regulating kids’ smartphone usage doesn’t work – they shouldn’t have one in the first place
- Ireland to make age checks through government app mandatory for social media
- Colman Noctor: Why are voluntary smartphone codes not working in all schools?
- Colman Noctor: Raising children in the age of artificial intelligence
- Schools should be ‘phone-free’ all day, education secretary tells teachers
- What screen time does to children’s brains is more complicated than it seems
- ‘No smartphones before 14; no social media until 16’: The Anxious Generation author on how to fight back against big tech – The Guardian
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt – a pocket full of poison – The Guardian
- Screen Time and the Brain – Harvard Medical School
- These teens turned their rooms into tech-free zones. This was the result
- Teenagers call on politicians to do more to protect children from AI
- ‘Kidfluencing’ – What are pros and cons of posting kids content? – RTE
- Banning phones at school does not improve grades or mental health, says new UK study
- New Study Explores Digitally Native, But Technologically Illiterate Students
- Risks to children playing Roblox ‘deeply disturbing’, say researchers – The Guardian
- France to tighten mobile phone ban in middle schools
- The pressure to get my teen daughter a smartphone was immense. We found a compromise
- Sweden to implement nationwide mobile phone ban in schools
- Mary McCarthy: Why Ireland’s Children’s Ombudsman hasn’t done its homework on school smartphone bans
- Phones creating ‘epidemic of disconnection’ in families, says Princess of Wales
- EU chief backs calls to keep children off social media
- Loneliness and Screens: Causes and Consequences
- ONLINE RELATED ARTICLES
- How Screen Time Affects Childhood Development
- The Impact on Mental Health of Children and Young People During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic (31 pages pdf)
- The Relationship Between Loneliness and Screen Usage
- Young children and screen-based media: The impact on cognitive and socioemotional development and the importance of parental mediation
- Screen time: Implications for early childhood cognitive development
- Effects of Excessive Screen Time on Child Development: An Updated Review and Strategies for Management
- Smartphone use and mental health: going beyond school restriction policies
- How to Handle Your Child’s Roblox Obsession: A Parent’s Guide to Setting Boundaries and Regaining Control
- Kids are addicted to social media. No one can agree on a solution.
- The Tablet Generation: Are We Raising Screen-Obsessed Kids?
- Internet safety for kids: 10 rules every parent must know
- CapCut Has Hidden Dangers for Kids—Here’s What Parents Need To Know
- Von der Leyen calls for a minimum age to access social media
- Are Screens Really the Problem? Or Is It Loneliness? Or Both?
- SNAPCHAT / INSTAGRAM
- Is Snapchat safe for my child? NSPCC
- What Parents Want to Know About Snapchat and Kids.
- Instagram unveils new protections for teen users
- RADIO
- When banter becomes bullying: The woman teaching young people about the real dangers of social media and online gaming
- Smartphones and Social Media ban for Teenagers
- Smartphones in schools
- ROBLOX
- Roblox faces backlash after a report uncovers games simulating real-life school shootings
- My chilling week on Roblox: sexually assaulted and shat on as a child avatar roaming the online world
- The hidden dangers of Roblox – what parents need to know
- Roblox – Australia Short video
- Roblox – Australia Short video 2