As parents, we are responsible for making sure our children get proper nutrition, plenty of exercise, a good education, and so on. We read articles and books on all sorts of difficult parenting topics, including the modern problem of managing screen time. Some of these articles give us a glimpse into how the experts handle screen time with their own children. It can be a very tricky balancing act!
Case in point: my son is currently obsessed with learning Spanish using an app called Duolingo. Of course, I’m ecstatic that he wants to learn Spanish. We are already a bilingual Franco-American family, speaking mostly French at home, and now we are all “playing” Spanish on our iPhones and iPads. But I’m also worried about the amount of time this child would like to spend learning Spanish if left to his own electronic devices.
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