Personalized Child Media Plan

Parents’ Technology Attitudes

Improvement Zone
Parents display attitudes towards technology that are too lenient,
meaning that their attitudes show too much flexibility on when
technology is used without determining clear boundaries for free-
device zones. Free-device zones for technology are very important to
enhance social connection, good sleeping habits, passions outside of
the screen, as well as a mindful living. A major aspect to help our kids
connect with their reality is to create the habit of unplugging. In a
world of technology, we recommend that every human being spends
time without technology to help the brain understand the peaceful and
joyful effect that a person can have without the excitement of the
screen glow. We encourage you to consider one change:
Determine the following situations as free-device zones:
Meals, family gatherings, outdoor activities, and short ride cars.

Integration of technology in family life

Great balance
Watching entertainment together can be an important means to
increase children’s receptiveness of parental advice and guidelines.
Media provides parents with great opportunities to have meaningful
conversations and understanding of the perceptions, notions, and
questions that children have about life. Love to see that you spend
time watching media together

Use of technology
Balanced Use
It sounds like your child uses technology in a balanced way. I know
parents are making a lot of effort into creating other distractions to
motivate him to stay away from screens. Please continue with this
effort. I also love that he is canalizing the time using technology on
coding activities. The one thing that I would like to see more is social
interaction and teamwork through technology. I wonder about how he
feels about his social skills and his tolerance towards people that are
different from him. From parents’ answer it sounds that social activities
are not a strength for him. This needs to be further analyse to make
sure that he is involved in activities where he can work on his social
skills and feel more confident about himself in this area.

Real World:
1. Find out what he loves about video games: is it the strategic
aspect, competitive aspect, or creative aspect. This will provide
you with more info on what type of activities he might like to
participate in the real world.
2. Due to the amount of time that your child is spending on
technology plus some of his lack of interest in social activities, I
wonder about how he fulfils emotional connections with other
people. This is something that we need to explore further.
3. Reinforcing teamwork and empathy in real life: It seems that he
would benefit from having more exposure to the beauty of
human variables. Kids usually choose activities according to their
strengths. It is hard for a child or any human being to choose
activities based on their wellbeing. The best way to help a child
strengthen skills is by developing habits. Therefore, I recommend
that the family chooses a couple of activities a week that involve
working in these two skills even if the child dislikes them.

Conversations that still need to happen with your child as a

mean to reduce for the direct and indirect effects of
technology
1. Respecting other people’s privacy
2. Being rude or disrespectful to others online
3. If they have been bullied, disrespected, attacked, or treated
badly online
4. what to do if they have been bullied, disrespected, attacked, or
treated badly online
5. The importance of sticking up for others online when they are
being cyber-bullying or harassed, as well as the effect of
mistreating others in our emotional wellbeing.
6. Rules of what can be shared on social media
7. How to stay safe and away from strangers online
8. Who they are allowed to be friends with and interact with on
social media and multiplayer video games
9. Fake news? (e.g., exaggeration of news, conspiracy theories,
fabricated images/videos sold as real, or advertisements)
10. Online violent content? (e.g., school shootings, historical
facts, or natural catastrophes)
11. Digital manner
 12. What to do when facing online grooming, catfishing, or
sexual solicitations?
13. Extortion/blackmailing

To Do for Parents:

1. Use screen time to reduce the time he is spending on

passive use of technology
2. Increase teamwork activities
3. Revised home attitudes about free-device zones
4. Understand more what he does in Discord and who are
his friends and people that he follows

More Specific Recommendations:

1. No more than 1 hour of gaming during weekdays, and no

more than 3 hours during weekends
2. Take away all games that involve passive learning or do
not involve a social interaction
3. Online interactions only with friends at his age.
4. Develop clear boundaries of when technology can be
used.
5. Allow him to use only one device for entertainment to
increase control of screen time.
6. Highly recommended one day of no tech devices for all
household members.

Suggestions on how to talk to your child, as well as immediate

changes that can be made:

1. Explain the negative effect of technology in the brain.

2. Explain that changes in boundaries and home rules are
made for his mental health and not because there is
something wrong with him or because you don’t trust
him.
3. Explain the difference between passive use of technology
and active use of technology.
4. Make sure you don’t appear as the enemy of her
technology world: spend more time being curious about
what he does, and spend time enjoying technology
together.