Four tips for managing your kids’ screen time
Minimize screen use, especially for the youngest children:
Minimize screen use, especially for the youngest children:
Children under two should spend as little time with screen devices as possible, except for video-chats with people they know offline and reading e-books with an adult or sibling.
Here are four quick and easy steps to find out the truth and share good information. Sometimes you only have to do one of these things, and most steps take less than a minute.
Sometimes a single search can break the fake, if a professional fact-checker like Snopes has already done the work for you.
If you’re worried that a film might not be suitable for your kids, preview it yourself. Talk to other parents who’ve seen it or check out the reviews by parents and kids at Common Sense Media. You can also use our tip sheet Understanding the Rating Systems to help understand what the ratings on a movie really say about it.