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Imparting Parental Values In An Age of Virtually Unrestricted Media Influences
The influence of screen devices, unrestricted media and online communication makes it far more difficult for parents to ensure their children grow up with their family values, traditions and religious faith. But there is a way to help ensure the next generation can learn and carry it forward. It requires a great deal of effort by parents facing challenge from both adolescence itself and new cultural norms. Parents must model their values, enrich their children’s lives with education and experiences promoting those values while limiting exposure to undesirable online media starting at a young age and continuing into adulthood. Learn how the Sentinel LaunchPad ™ from Sentinel Computers can help.
"Control of Space Invaders and Other Electronic Games" - Now Social Media 4 Decades Later
UK Parliament Members are considering legislation to limit Social Media time to 2 hours daily for children. This was attempted before in 1981 to restrict children from playing “Space Invaders”. It failed to pass in the Parliament.
While this new legislation might seem helpful, it really does not limit overall social media time across platforms and may lull parent into a false sense of security.
The LaunchPad not only allows parents to set the amount of social media time across all platforms it allows parents to restrict use based on the child’s age and maturity level.
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Limit Settings for Screen Devices
Children want to play and setting screen time limits is hard. Major health institutions provide little parental guidance and according to the CDC, children 11-14 in the US are spending nearly 9 hours a day on screens for entertainment. Clinical psychologist and Sentinel co-founder Dr. Kenneth Woog explains what research tells us about what are unsafe use levels and makes screen-time limit recommendations for video watching, gaming and social media.