Screen-Free Spring Break*
There has been a sickness going around my kids’ school lately, and I’m not talking about the stomach bug making the rounds. Among the parents, there’s been an outbreak of dramatic screen time cutbacks. For the uninitiated, “screen time” in our circle means individual time spent on a personal device: an iPad, a laptop, a Nintendo Switch, a phone. Family movie night or watching live sports together seems to be universally exempt. And, notably, parents themselves are not typically subject to the same limits. A few families in our friend group have gone even further and banned devices outright until summer. ...