A Forum For Parents

Screen Time: How It Affects Your Child and What You Can Do About It

With Dimitri Christakis, MD, MPH

What role does “screen time” play at your house? How does screen time influence kids’ ability to pay attention, learn, stay healthy, and sleep at various ages?

Author of The Elephant in the Living Room: Make Television Work for Your Kids, Dr. Christakis is an international expert on children and media. He is the George Adkins Professor
of Pediatrics at the University of Washington, Director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior, and Development at Seattle Children’s Hospital Research Institute, and an attending
pediatrician at Children’s Hospital in Seattle.

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