Why your children's tablets are doing more harm than good


By AGENCY

Already addicted to screens as young children, they age into social media, which depends on the same science of addiction. Photo: Dreamstime/TNS

I’m struggling with my kids using their tablets so much. How much should I allow them to use them? I feel like they’re always on them, and that my wife and I don’t talk to our kids much anymore.

I was recently on a cruise ship that stopped at a private island. Thousands of my fellow cruise-goers, my family and I, were able, for several hours, to have free rein over this tropical Bahamian paradise.

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