By Catherine Pearson<\/a> | 08\/09\/2021 04:58pm EDT | Huffpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n My two sons always got some screen time daily, but my husband and I tried to set relatively clear limits about what they could play and watch, and for how long. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, and like so many other parents and caregivers, we leaned into screens hard.<\/em> Our 6-year-old got an iPad. Our toddler grew accustomed to multihour Blippi marathons while my husband and I worked. My children have become legitimate screen monsters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Various surveys suggest that my experience isn\u2019t an anomaly and that kids\u2019 screen time during the pandemic has soared. American kids now spend more than four hours a day on screens<\/a>, and screen time has basically doubled<\/a> over the past 18 months. One psychologist recently warned The New York Times<\/a> that America\u2019s kids are headed for a \u201cperiod of epic withdrawal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Click here for the rest of the story..<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n For 18 months, we’ve used screens to teach our kids and keep our collective sanity. Here’s how to cut back. By Catherine Pearson | 08\/09\/2021 04:58pm EDT | Huffpost.com My two sons always got some screen time daily, but my husband and I tried to set relatively clear limits about what they could play and watch, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[1311,1310,1312,1313,1308],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insurance","category-shield-blog","tag-computer","tag-i-pad","tag-laptop","tag-limit-screen-time","tag-screen-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11512,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions\/11512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shieldagency.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emphasize Play<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMore great articles to check out!<\/h2>\n\n\n