Dr. Anna Lembke

It could even involve the three-year-old.

I mean, it's amazing what kids can understand.

So get the whole family together, sit down and say, hey, we care about each other.

Our use of digital media is problematic for our family individually and collectively.

Each person can go around and say what they're observing, including asking your daughter, what do you think?

Do you think this is a problem?

What do you observe?

What's good about using the iPad?

What's not so good about using the iPad?

And then I really recommend a behavioral intervention for the whole family that might actually include getting rid of those devices for a period of at least four weeks.

Now, importantly, you don't want to... The danger that many parents made, I've made it myself, is you're so upset, you just dive in, you grab the devices away, the kid goes nuts, like we saw in those videos.

You want to talk about it, you want to plan it out.

And your kid, she's not going to be happy with it, but you need to really say, this comes from a place of love.

Because I love you, because we love you, and we are observing signs and symptoms of a...

an addiction to the digital media or really just an unhealthy, you know, relationship, we're going to pull back.

We're going to change things in our home.

I think this is the key.

We can make these changes.

It's effortful, but it's worth the effort.

Absolutely.