{"id":14264,"date":"2019-06-03T15:52:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=14264"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:26","slug":"is-digital-addiction-a-real-threat-to-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/03\/is-digital-addiction-a-real-threat-to-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Is \u2018digital addiction\u2019 a real threat to kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640.jpg\" alt=\"young boy holding tablet\" class=\"wp-image-5485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640-125x83.jpg 125w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>(<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/kids-playing-connected-childhood-1253096\/\">twinquinn84\/Pixabay, CC0 Creative Commons<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a great deal of talk these days about \u201cdigital addiction.\u201d But several experts from U-M say <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/20\/well\/family\/is-digital-addiction-a-real-threat-to-kids.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fwell\">we should teach kids to think of screens as something to handle in moderation<\/a> rather than something without any healthy place in our lives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ellen Selkie, an assistant professor of adolescent medicine, who does research on adolescents\u2019 use of social media, said, \u201cIt\u2019s like food, it\u2019s something we all need because of the way businesses run, because of the job market \u2014 and for teens it\u2019s the way they socialize.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jenny Radesky, an assistant professor of developmental behavioral pediatrics and&nbsp;an expert on technology use by children, said, \u201cthe main problem I see with calling problematic technology use a clinical \u2018addiction\u2019 is that it locates the illness or problem within the individual, rather than the digital environment that is shaping the individual\u2019s behavior, often through methods that are intentionally exploitative or subconscious.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a great deal of talk these days about \u201cdigital addiction.\u201d But several experts from U-M say we should teach kids to think of screens as something to handle in moderation rather than something without any healthy place in our lives. Ellen Selkie, an assistant professor of adolescent medicine, who does research on adolescents\u2019 use of social media,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/06\/03\/is-digital-addiction-a-real-threat-to-kids\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[289,217,70,65],"class_list":["post-14264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-children","tag-culture","tag-health","tag-social"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640.jpg",640,426,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640.jpg",640,426,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640.jpg",600,399,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640.jpg",640,426,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640.jpg",640,426,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640-640x300.jpg",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640.jpg",640,426,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/kids-playing-1253096_640.jpg",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"There\u2019s a great deal of talk these days about \u201cdigital addiction.\u201d But several experts from U-M say we should teach kids to think of screens as something to handle in moderation rather than something without any healthy place in our lives. Ellen Selkie, an assistant professor of adolescent medicine, who does research on adolescents\u2019 use&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14267,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions\/14267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}