Resource Format: Video
Michigan Medicine

Is Time on Your Phone Affecting Your Relationships with Your Kids?

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Social Development
Stress/Anxiety
Early Childhood
Education
Mental Health
Pediatrics
Public Health
Public Service
English
Created: 2016
Uploaded: 10/24/2017

In this short video, pediatrician Jenny Radesky, MD, discusses how mobile devices may be negatively affecting interactions between parents and children. She offers tips for families including having a family media plan that specifies unplugged times and spaces.

Jenny Radesky, MD, is a developmental and behavioral pediatrician at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.

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