“I’m not losing my son to this.”Nearly a year into the coronavirus pandemic, parents across the country — and the world — are watching their children slide down an increasingly slippery path into an all-consuming digital life. When the outbreak hit, many parents relaxed restrictions on screens as a stopgap way to keep frustrated, restless children entertained and engaged. Now, she said, she’d have given different advice if she had known how long children would end up stuck at home. I don’t know what the expectations are,” said Paraskevi Briasouli, a corporate writer who is raising four children — ages 8, 6, 3 and 1 — with her husband in a two-bedroom Manhattan apartment. Before the pandemic, James had so many options, she said, adding: Now, “it makes me feel badly when I try to restrict him.

Source: bd News24 January 16, 2021 21:11 UTC