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How should we teach our kids to use digital media?

  • Written by Jenny Radesky, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Michigan
imageParents should be involved in their children's use of electronic devices.Parent and child with tablet via shutterstock.com

Any time a new technology is introduced, it disrupts values, routines and behaviors. This goes back well before the printing press replaced oral histories or the telephone replaced face-to-face conversations, but is evident...

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