Anya Kamenetz

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 095: Anya Kamenetz Talks About Her Book "The Art of Screen Time" · 13 Feb 2018 podcast

And their theory is that there are certain kids who are more susceptible to the effects of media.

And they name kids on the autism spectrum, kids with attention deficit issues, and also certain kinds of emotional volatility.

So kids that are rated by their parents as being harder to calm and self-regulate as infants at the age of nine months, they end up watching more television at the age of two.

And there seems to be a double feedback loop that goes on there.

So one is that they're more fussy to begin with, and the parents are turning to screens to get a break.

It also could be that the screens seem to be calming them down, but actually it's a form of stimulation.

So, you know, we can all kind of see this paradoxical effect when it comes to media.

You know, if you have a kid who's kind of

intense emotionally, and they're very attached to their screen.

And the screen seems to be pacifying them or chilling them out.

But then when you turn it off, you get this explosive reaction because they're so attached to what's happening.

And so, you know, this is exactly the population of kids that may be more prone to problematic relationships with screens, to being really attached to their screens, having a restricted interest in something that might be like a media, a particular media set of characters, or even a particular game.

And so this is exactly the population that people think about when they think about just monitoring really closely and making sure that you're not seeing too many issues.

And then the other interesting interaction they have to throw in there is a relationship between screens and sleep, because we all know how important it is to have good follow-up sleep for kids whose brains are developing.

And especially when you have kids who might be more emotionally volatile, that if they miss out on sleep,

it makes it even harder for them to withstand frustration and to tolerate changes in their routine.

And the screen time can sometimes sneak in there and you say, well, they're not, you know, as a young child, they're not taking a nap, but at least they'll sit and watch a show instead.

Or, you know, they watch their favorite show before bed or whatever.

And that's an area that researchers look at sleep are very concerned that parents, you know, they might see a really, what looks like a really serious problem, but it might be, you know, the lack of sleep might be driving it and screens in turn might be driving that.

Well, I'll tell you, I mean, you know, I want to honor that that's really complicated and hard, and I don't have a child on the spectrum.

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