Screen Time

The best of The Parents Website 2022

From how to help teens beat the procrastination trap to a brave parenting experiment in banning TV, we've selected our 'best of' articles from the past year.

Features

Best of the Web: Be your teen’s online coach, not their boss, and more

Working with your teen about online use, the morning chaos of leaving the house, and making our streets safe for kids to play.

News

Best of the Web: When your child won’t go to school, and more

The growing problem of school refusal, the agonies of Mum Guilt, and why parents must model good screen behaviour for their children.

News

Best of the Web: Old people’s home for teens, and more

The intergenerational experiment with teens and senior citizens, does sport really build character, and what children think about their well-being online.

News

My Tiny Humans: I banned TV

With signs that TV watching was affecting a Tiny Human, the plug was pulled on weekday television. Natalie Moutafis explains what happened next in this brave parenting experiment.

Opinion

Why ‘screen time’ is an outdated concept

'Screen time' is an outdated concept, so let's ditch it and focus on quality instead, writes Kate Highfield.

Features

Best of the Web: School lunches and the pressure to impress, and more

School lunch box stress, giving kids a 'healthy digital diet', and ideas to bully-proof kids.

News

Why the kids should see this

It's the curated video website for kids that makes them say 'wow'. Michael Broadstock talks with Rion Nakaya, creator of The Kid Should See This.

News

Educating our kids to thrive online

We can help young people to live well online through character education, writes Tom Harrison.

Features