Increased usage of computer and mobile screens has been inevitable the last four months during the COVID-19 pandemic. While Ho didn’t invent the term (she says it dates back to at least 2018), doomscrolling has entered the modern lexicon. Every evening, Ho sends out a tweet to remind her followers to stop doomscrolling and go to bed. For years she has been working with families and studying the health impact of screen time on children, including mobile devices. In recent weeks she published a paper on what parents could do during the pandemic to mitigate their children’s screen time, and by extension their own.

Source: thestar June 23, 2020 18:19 UTC