Quotes About Screen-time

We tend to crib about kids being addicted to phones all the time, but the truth is that it is the parents who are the root cause of such behavior, because they are usually the original addicts.

I'm opposed to a lot of the time that we as a civilization have come to spend looking at screens. For my money, life is much delicious damn near everyplace but inside that screen.

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

I think an excess of anything is bad, be it mobile phones, social media, private tuitions or watching television.

When I get my weekly screen-time reports from Apple, it's disturbing.

What I tell my kids is, 'I'm preparing you for college and for life. So, having independence, knowing how to set your own boundaries, figuring out how to make that balance. We still have screen-time rules.'

Lego for many parents is the antithesis of the high tech world. We are desperate to wean our little ones away from the tablets and into the bricks.

Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale.

Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

I have a 6-year-old daughter, and we never look through magazines. But when we're on a plane, that's the one time we have screen-time and magazine-time sometimes. And I do not open a magazine with her without saying: 'Now remind me, are these real pictures?'

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

In a short evolutionary time, we have changed17 from group-living primates skilled at reading each other's every gesture and intention to a solitary species, each one of us preoccupied with our own screen.

We spend our lives in front of screens, and cooking is one of the best antidotes.

Lately, I have been wondering if there is time left for daydreaming in this 21st-century world of constant communication. Or are we held hostage by our fascination and focus on small, lighted screens seemingly glued to the palms of our hands?

Being in Silicon Valley makes me strict when it comes to my children's technology use. I am surrounded by it all day, so I try to avoid it when I get home. I set screen-time limits, because I think it's good to diversify activities.

Today's person spends way more time in front of screens, in florescent lit rooms, in cubicles being on one end of the other of an electronic data transfer . . . What is it to be human and alive and exercise your humanity in that kind of exchange?

I am so disturbed by kids who spend all day playing videogames.