Digital Wellbeing Research & Recommendations for Parents

Nature Play WA have partnered with researchers from the Telethon Kids Institute to create a helpful ‘what you need to know’ Digital Wellbeing Guide for parents, highlighting new and relevant research on the impacts of excessive screen time on children, in a clear and easy-to-understand manner.

Navigating children’s safe passage through the digital world is one of the great challenges of modern parenthood – and it is a challenge undertaken, largely, without a roadmap. How much time should kids spend on devices? What does healthy device usage look like? What are the impacts of getting screen time limits wrong? How does parental screen time affect kids? What strategies work to bring a healthy balance to the way we raise our kids in a technological world?

These are questions no other generation of parents has faced. And getting it wrong can have significant consequences.

Digital Wellbeing Research & Recommendations for Parents

The free, printable Digital Wellbeing guide includes eight pages of relevant research findings and recommendations for parents, specifically addressing;

• What is screen time?
• What is the effect of excessive screen time on children – specifically to physical health, mental health, cognitive development and learning, and social emotional development?
• How much is too much?
• What is the impact of parental screen habits on children’s screen time?
• What can we do about it? With seven key recommendations for parents and caregivers.

The document also includes a list of research references to all of the research used to create the guide listed within the document, should you wish to read more.