How to manage your screen time

 HOW TO MANAGE YOUR SCREEN TIME

By: Prapti Doshi

Hello readers, welcome back!

Nowadays we all are glued onto the screen, aren’t we? Kids have to spend long hours studying on-screen, rather than with a nice book, and a blackboard our teacher calls us up to. Now we are saying, those were the days… Well, here is a little something that will help you manage your screen time!

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Create a technology-free zone

Develop places in your home where any types of gadgets aren’t permitted, like your mobile phones, portable video games/consoles, computers and more. For example, your dining room or kitchen should only be for family discussions, i.e: your devices aren’t permitted!

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Encourage other activities

Go have a walk outside or read a book, draw, doodle, do colouring, play sports, make things. may it be a bucket list that does not include any screen or gadgets or a simple birthday card for situations if you forget, you always forgot, how life if much bigger than outside the screen, another few things you could do are photography, gardening, make physical art, play board/card games and bird-watch and/or observe things.

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Manage your screen time though your device directly

Apple	Android
Check out this link for easy instructions on how to manage your screen time for your own and your child’s apple devices. Link:https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT208982	Check out this link for easy instructions on how to manage your screen time for your own adn child’s apple devices.  Link:https://www.android.com/intl/en_in/digital-wellbeing/#balance-stay-on-track

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‌https://www.facebook.com/MayoClinicHealthSystem. “Slim Your Screen Time.” Mayo Clinic Health System, 2021, www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/slim-your-screen-time. Accessed 18 Jan. 2021.

‌https://www.facebook.com/verywell. “10 Tips for Limiting Your Child’s Screen Time.” Verywell Family, 2021, www.verywellfamily.com/tips-for-limiting-electronics-and-screen-time-for-kids-1094870. Accessed 18 Jan. 2021.