Setting Limits: When a Play Diet Isn’t Working

Use this excellent listing of tools to limit access and time to technology. These are particularly helpful when kids refuse to stop playing or may be using technology inappropriately.

Setting Limits: Use a Play Diet to Limit Screen Time

In my work as a child clinical neuropsychologist, I field questions about how to help children with ADHD who tend to become overly focused on screen-based technologies. Parents whose children […]

Setting Limits: Limiting Children’s Screen Time Through Curation

What if you thought of yourself as the custodian of your child’s entertainment library? Curating, or choosing, the type of content your children can access is one approach to limiting […]

Setting Limits: 7 Steps Toward Limiting Screen Time

In an ideal world kids and adults alike would always choose to engage in healthy play and leisure activities. The need for limiting screen time and helping kids recognize that […]

Setting Limits: 5 tips for parents on limiting screen time

In my work as a neuropsychologist it is all too common to hear about children who choose to spend all their free time sitting in front of a screen rather […]

Setting Limits: How to limit kids’ video game and technology use

I am a child clinical psychologist, and while my five children might argue that you could find better advice elsewhere (I do know that they love me, anyway), the parents […]

Setting Limits: Should Children with ADHD or Autism Play Video Games?

In my work as a child clinical psychologist I have observed the ever-changing interests and motivations of children — especially children with ADHD or autism –over the past 25 years, […]

An Argument Against Setting Screen Time Limits

From Dr. Kulman: I was recently asked to justify giving children unlimited access to age appropriate screen time. While I am not fully in agreement with this position, it forced […]

Minecraft and ADHD: Setting Time Limits

Video games can be very powerful motivational tools, but they can also be huge distractions, especially for kids with executive functioning problems. Take the combination of Minecraft and ADHD, for […]

Setting Screen Time Limits For Children

Setting limits on screen time is one of the most common concerns expressed by parents of 21st century children. Parents look to childcare experts for guidance on this controversial topic […]