Most research on kids’ screen time has focused on a child’s behavior. Far less attention has gone to parents and their role in their children’s media use.

While research on children’s screen use is growing, most of it has focused on how a child’s behavior and temperament influence how much time they spend on screens.

Yet far less attention has gone to parents’ role in children’s media use.

In 2024, the U.S. surgeon general identified parenting stress as a public health concern.

Researchers, clinicians and policymakers were called to action to better understand parents’ needs, with the goal of supporting them in raising children and maintaining a healthy family.

  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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    2 days ago

    It doesn’t feel righteous to judge the parents about it now when you frame it like that though!

    • Trump Rapes Kids@lemmy.world
      1·
      21 hours ago

      I’ve grown up and gotten over judging my parents. Reading “Timequake” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. really helped with putting things into perspective.

      The parents didn’t choose to be born either. None of us did. None of us got an instruction manual for this bullshit we were forced in to without our consent. As far as we can tell none of us have ever done this “living as sentient meat” thing before. We’re not great at it because we’re all just making it up as we go.

      As kids we tend to see our parents as the authority who should know what they’re doing, but they’re not. From their point of view they’re young people who are trying to juggle jobs and kids for the first time and get overwhelmed and sometimes do things they know aren’t the best things to do to get a bit of relative peace for themselves.

      The parents aren’t monsters who want to neglect their kids. In previous generations they said it takes a village to raise a child, and that tight knit small community is gone in most places. There is no village. If two parents are both trying to juggle jobs and pay for daycare and make dinner and do all the house work the stress and exhaustion makes sense. It’s natural. It’s the large changes to society failing them.

    • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today
      32·
      2 days ago

      Yes, it does. What is the alternative? Judge the kids? They did not choose to be born. Their parents chose to create them despite having no clue how to care for them.

      I could’ve used a /s.