Screen Time and Social Media

Screen Time and Social Media presented by UHealth Jackson Children’s Care as part of their Parental Guidance Series.

Your speakers are Carolina Avila, PsyD, a UHealth Jackson Children’s Care child and adolescent psychologist at Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital and Suzette Fernandez-Lewis, MS, CCC-SLP, Speech-Language Pathologist, with the Christine E. Lynn Rehabilitation Center for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at UHealth/Jackson Memorial.

Short on time? While you can come back as often as you need, here are some of the many topics discussed and when they appear on the video, if you want to fast forward.

For infants, and small children.
- Screen-Time Guidelines: 4:40
- Affects on child development: 12:00
- Setting Screen-time boundaries:18:01
- Tantrums: 21:19
- Activities to replace screen-time: 22:30
- Is there a value in educational games?: 52:22
- One key takeaway, if you learn nothing else: 25:23
For Older Children and Teens.
- When is it time for your child’s first cell phone or social media account?: 27:55
- Monitoring and talking with your child on social media use: 31:36
- Falling into Social Media traps? What is “real” online?:37:08
- Affects of Social Media on Mental Health: 41:32
- Talking with your kids about cyberbullying and internet dangers: 45:20
- Violence in video games: 51:34
For Everyone.
- Screentime and bedtime/sleep: 34:53