Media and Parenting: Current Findings and Future Directions
摘要
Digital devices are an ubiquitous part of children’s lives and parents often struggle with how best to support their children growing up in a digital world. This chapter highlights the main conceptualizations of parenting of children and adolescents’ media use, summarizes the current patterns of findings, identifies gaps in the extant research literature, and offers suggestions for supporting both youth’s and parents’ healthy media use. Caregivers have a critical role in supporting children’s and teens’ optimal development, and media provide another context in which parenting is important—from open lines of communication and clear and consistent rules to healthful modeling of media use.