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How to Avoid “Quarantine Screen” Pain

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Neck/upper back pain from hunching over your screen all day long? The posture problem from all this screen time, is an epidemic of mass proportions. Now we are sitting (or maybe standing) in front of screens… all…. Get a portable raise screen for your laptop. If so, are you feeling it yet? Have you thrown your back out?

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Why You Shouldn?t Start Your Day With Screen Time

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A study from the International Data Corporation, sponsored by Facebook, found that 80% of smartphone users check their devices within 15 minutes of waking up. To continue your phone-free streak each morning, check out some additional ideas on how you can meaningfully start your day, sans screens. .

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A New Study Says Excess Screen Time Affects Toddler Brain Development

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In what researchers of a new study on toddler’s screen time call “a vast uncontrolled experiment,” screens have been fully integrated into our work, homes and our child-rearing lives without much fanfare (and without much clarity on what it does to all of our brains.).

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Try This Now: Use the One Screen Rule to Improve Your Focus

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While studies have shown that having more screen area (in other words, using two monitors connected to the same computer) can boost productivity, using several devices for different tasks can lead to problems with attention, and decrease productivity by up to 40 percent, Daniel Amen, M.D.,

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Study Finds Early Exposure To Digital Devices Links To Restless Sleep And EBD

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From TV to laptop use, tablets to phones, our kids are spending an astronomical amount of time staring at screens. A new study out of National University of Singapore has found yet another detrimental effect of too much screen time, this time on children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Additionally, 93.9%

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Rebecca Cenni-Leventhal: “Then make a plan to overcome it”

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I followed my passion and studied Human Resources at the University of Wisconsin. The episode was entitled “Screen Time,” and takes a deep dive into how our mobile devices impact our daily lives and our perception. Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us a bit about your “backstory”? We learned a lot!

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Worried About How Much Screen Time Your Kids Are Getting? Try These 4 Strategies to Balance Their Tech Use.

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Screens are all around us. From smartphones to TVs, we interact with screens all day long. Is it any wonder, then, that during COVID-19, more than 60% of K-12 parents surveyed by Pew Research Center feel more guilty about the amount of time their children spend in front of screens? Screens: Not Going Away, but Not the Enemy.