VIRTUAL PRESENTATION: TWEENS, TEENS, & SCREENS: HELPING CHILDREN AND TEENS MOVE AWAY FROM TECH OVERLOAD AND TOWARDS HEALTHY TECH BOUNDARIES
The Weston PTO presents Dr. Jill Walsh on Wednesday, November 17 at 7PM for a one-hour virtual presentation followed by a Q&A. Although there has always been debate about the opportunities and challenges with screen time, there was at least a list of best practices that we as parents could seek out as guidelines. Then the pandemic made technology critical for both our children’s academic and social experiences. What do best practices look like now? Dr. Jill Walsh will discuss practical and valuable parameters that we can establish to help set our children up for success navigating their technology. Particular focus will be on thinking about quantity vs. quality of tech use and addressing challenges like multitasking, tech as a mood management tool, and digital socializing. She will also address the recent data suggesting a link between Instagram use and mental illness in teens. While Dr. Walsh will provide a research-based approach, she is also a working mother of two technology-obsessed kids so she will also offer insights into which rules to follow closely and which to worry less about as we navigate this new period of digital engagement. For questions, please contact Alison Yaeger-Krueger, Sally Andrea, or Kat Wilberton. Please register here. If you can’t make it, we hope to have this session recorded and we will circulate following.