June Yong Instead of going on like a broken record on how tech devices can be bad for our children’s brains, sometimes we need to switch gears and focus on what is good. School holidays are in full swing. With the children at home all day, for some parents it’s no holiday, though.
Many are fretting over how to control their kids’ screen use, and how to make productive use of their time. Apart from going away on holiday, or signing the kids up for various sports or enrichment camps – both of which involve hefty sums of money – what else can we do to occupy them meaningfully? Already a subscriber? Log in Get exclusive reports and insights with more than 500 subscriber-only articles every month $9.90 $9.
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