Trophy Generation & Screen Time vs. Free Time
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The old saying goes that you learn more from failure than success. Yet, today’s teenagers are reporting experiencing high anxiety and depression with the fear of failure being a key factor. Local expert Adam Russo, CEO of Edgewood Clinical Service and author of Unwritten Rules: Real Strategies to Parent Your Child into a Successful Adult, joins the Moms on set to talk about letting kids fail and learn how to handle the emotions that go with it. Helping kids learn consequences for their actions and how to manage their own lives at appropriate stages can go a long way into them becoming healthy, happy, self-starting adults. Adam Russo was a speaker at TEDx Naperville on The Importance of Failure. Teens are spending more than one-third of their days using online media such as online video or music — nearly nine hours on average, this according to a new study from the family technology education non-profit group, Common Sense Media. For tweens, those between the ages of 8 and 12, the average is nearly six hours per day. The Moms discuss screen time vs. free time and how it’s a complicated relationship. They offer suggestions, such as “no technology zone” and emphasizing free time doesn’t mean online time.
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