When researchers last year tracked the smartphones of 200 volunteers ages 11 to 17, they found teens weren’t just mindless screen zombies.
TimeoutIQ® helps you control your kids’ screen time. While they have fun learning at their own pace.
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With TimeoutIQ®, you will be able to –
Set the Grade level for your child anywhere from Kindergarten to Grade 6 (Ages 3 to 11). TimeoutIQ®’s quality curriculum is designed by educators to automatically display Math, Science, Geography and English quiz questions/challenges from a vast library that’s growing every day.
Children are not the same and neither are their screen habits. You know your child best. If she’s an avid reader and is using her device for high quality educational content, that’s a great thing. Personalize her screen time and set daily limits or extend/reduce them. Easy, peasy!
TimeoutIQ® motivates your child by rewards as they progess through their lessons.
TimeOutIQ® allows you to monitor app usage and logs the amount of time, number of questions/challenges and number of right/wrong answers.
TimeOutIQ® gives you the option to turn on location tracking on your child’s device. Also very handy if they lose their device.
Is your child too smart for her grade? TimeOutIQ® automatically increases the level of questions/challenges beyond the grade level that you set.
The case for adding education to screen time management
Our library of content is designed based on the Common Core Elementary School Curriculum and was compiled by teachers and education coaches.
Whatever the grade level, the questions and challenges are meant to make your child stop and think. The benefit of doing this is it distracts and interrupts your child’s recreational screen time – stuff like games, videos, social media – and acts as a refresher to what they’re studying at school.
This helps them get familiar (and a little more comfortable) with math and science and leads to better grades.
Limiting recreational screen time to less than two hours a day, and having sufficient sleep and physical activity is associated with improved cognition, compared with not meeting any recommendations, according to an observational study of more than 4,500 US children aged 8-11 years old published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal.
Taken individually, limited screen time and improved sleep were associated with the strongest links to improved cognition, while physical activity may be more important for physical health.
However, only one in 20 US children aged between 8-11 years meet the three recommendations advised by the Canadian 24-hour Movement Guidelines to ensure good cognitive development – 9-11 hours of sleep, less than two hours of recreational screen time, and at least an hour of physical activity every day.
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Whether it’s lockboxes or control apps, parents have searched far and wide for ways to reduce their child’s screen time. A new study suggests that the answer may lie in the parent’s own screen habits.
Using a phone in front of your child can have more of an effect than you might think.
The study, published this month in the journal Pediatric Research, shows that parents’ screen use is associated with increased adolescent screen time – along with problematic social media, video game and mobile phone use. Problematic use can include addictive behaviors such as withdrawal, building tolerance, relapse and obsessive thoughts, which may disrupt daily functioning, according to the study.
According to new research, “technoference” is real.
Toddlers who are exposed to more screen time have fewer conversations with their parents or caregivers by an array of measures. They say less, hear less and have fewer back-and-forth exchanges with adults compared with children who spend less time in front of screens.
Those findings, published on Monday in the journal JAMA Pediatrics, make up one of the first sets of longitudinal evidence to confirm an intuitive reality: Screens are not just linked to higher rates of obesity, depression and hyperactivity among children; they also curb face-to-face interactions at home — with long-term implications that could be worrisome.
Parenting in the smartphone age is like taking a test with no correct answers.
By now, we know that too much screen time can negatively impact a child’s mental health, brain development, and behavior.
But it’s summertime. School’s out. You need to get work done; the kids are on your last nerve. Is it really that bad to let them while the day away on devices now and again?
Yeah, it’s not great. In fact, when it comes to the top “what not to do, let kids do” these days, it’s right up there next to encouraging them to get in a car with strangers or poke a raccoon in the eyeball.
A new study is tying excessive screen time in a child’s first year to lower cognitive skills later in life. The research, published Jan. 30, 2023 in JAMA Pediatrics, shows children exposed to screen time for an average of two hours a day performed worse on attention and executive functions at age 9.
Fortunately, there are recommendations from experts on what amount of screen time is appropriate for your child, depending on their age. There are also ways that caregivers can moderate and manage their child’s screen time to help ensure that kids have a healthy relationship with their screens.