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Media Moms & Digital Dads
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Media Moms & Digital Dads

A Fact Not Fear Approach to Parenting in the Digital Age

Yalda T. Uhls
Bibliomotion, 2015

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Recommendation

By 2010, children were spending more time with electronic devices than with their parents or in school. Is digital access destroying childhood? Child psychologist Yalda T. Uhls urges parents not to worry. Calling on multiple and varied studies, including her own, she discusses the mostly positive research on children and media use, and she helps parents understand and manage the media habits of their children, from toddlers to teenagers. She explains how families should take an active role in setting their media consumption and includes research on how children and teenagers learn through digital means. getAbstract recommends her thoughtful, encouraging conclusions to parents, educators, policy makers and anyone in a digital business.

Take-Aways

  • Parents worry about how today’s digital environment affects their children and teenagers.
  • Because infants learn best by interacting in person, children under the age of two should have extremely limited media time or none at all.
  • Children learn by observation and model the behavior they see.

About the Author

Yalda T. Uhls, PhD, is a regional director for the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media and a senior researcher at the Children’s Digital Media Center @ LA at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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