Anya Kamenetz
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253 appearances
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1 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard Feb 2018
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You know, to say like, oh, you have to read this and this will help you figure it out the way there might be for sleep or food or other issues that parents are grappling with.
So I really set out to write that book.
I set out to write the guide that I wish I'd had that was, you know, reassuring and calm and based on the evidence, but also had a lot of firsthand on the ground detail about what parents are really doing.
I am, and I think that's because it's kind of the way that parents might think about it when they're first starting out, especially with very young children.
And so it's kind of the broad end of the funnel, but also realizing that it shows up very, very differently for different kids and just different kids have different aspects of media that they gravitate toward.
And of course, there are kids who don't gravitate towards it at all, and then they don't really have a problem.
But, you know, thinking about it as broadly as possible really kind of helped me to think about what's the taxonomy of screens,
What are the different types of behavior with relationship to screens, active versus passive use, interactive, you know, mobile device versus television?
And so, yeah, really trying to set as broad a basis as possible, knowing that parents will have their own very individual ways into this issue and trying to give people, you know, a set of rules, a heuristic, rules of thumb for thinking about it instead of just prescribing it from above.
Thank you.
That's definitely what I set out to do.
And I mean, even when you come down to the idea of time, you know, pointing out that not all parents care about time or really would need to regulate time.
And sometimes you're more interested in priority or you're more interested in the type of activity or you're more interested, as I know that you've written about, you know, getting your kids to regulate it themselves.
And I think that's a really wise approach.
So in the process of writing this book, my older daughter went from age three to now age six.
And then I had a younger baby as well, who's now 14 months.
So families change and ages change.
And I think what's appropriate for kids at different stages is really going to change.
The one rule that's remained a constant in our house
is that we do keep the videos off except for Saturdays.
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