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November 20, 2018

Limiting screen time for kids harder than it looks

By MARTHA IRVINE
AP National Writer

CHICAGO — For many parents, limiting screen time for their children seems like an exercise in futility. They are busy, overwhelmed and tired of the fight against increasingly omnipresent screens. Barb and Allen Hailey know the drill well, including the tussles to get their 10-year-old son, Henry, to stop playing the popular online game “Fortnite” — often his early Saturday morning routine.

“The whole process to get him off (screens) is very trying and confrontational, and then once he's off, there's a lot of complaining and grumpiness for a while as we try to coax him to do something else,” his mom says. “He's upset. Mom is a crank. What is it all for?”


 
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