'Screenagers' Addresses Issue of Screen Time
“It all started with one question - what new phone to get my daughter,” Dr. Delaney Ruston says in the opening of her documentary “Screenagers.”
The film, shown to Benjamin middle school students and their parents, discusses the challenge of managing the time teenagers spend in front of a screen each day.
Ruston says the average teenager spends more time with electronic media than going to school. The New York physician charts her own family’s struggle with balancing screen time for their two children. One solution Ruston comes up with is creating a “contract” with your children that outlines rules of cellphone use. Two guidelines she found personally successful were no phones in the bedrooms at night and no phone use in the car.
Ruston tells The New York Times that her goal is to spark a movement that gets people talking about how to get their kids to live more balanced lives.
See the official trailer below:
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