{"id":1548,"date":"2023-03-27T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2023-03-27T10:09:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T10:09:24","slug":"reclaiming-families-from-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Reclaiming Families From Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/reclaiming-families-from-screens\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/reclaiming-families-from-screens\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s technology presents unique problems for families. To help, Tom Kersting writing for Institute for Family Studies, offers five tips to reclaim a family from screen. First, keep devices out of teens\u2019 bedrooms. Second, get kids out of their bedrooms and into the family room, Third, bring back the family dinner\u2014without phones. Fourth, pull the plug on your child\u2019s phone or tablet when in the car, and finally, practice what you preach. In general, reconnect as a family with in-person, intentional interaction.<\/p>\n<p>Research is beginning to show that mental health problems increase as apps, games, social media, and YouTube access grow exponentially. Kersting says \u201cSince smartphones became mainstream in twenty-twelve, a full-blown mental health epidemic has emerged among our nation\u2019s youth.\u201d Families being families, parents being parents, is the best antidote we have.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/reclaiming-families-from-screens\/ Today\u2019s technology presents unique problems for families. To help,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1549,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}