Published On Jun 21, 2024
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In this Friday Night Family event, we watch and discuss a documentary about how tech time impacts children’s development and what solutions we can implement as adults to empower our children to navigate the digital world best to find balance.
Following the documentary screening, Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi asks questions, shars her thoughts, and we learn from others in the community.
About the Documentary
Are you watching kids scroll through life with their rapid-fire thumbs and a six-second attention span? Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston saw that with her kids and learned that the average kid spends 6.5 hours a day looking at screens. She wondered about the impact of all this time and about the friction occurring in homes and schools around negotiating screen time — friction she knew all too well.
In Screenagers, as with her award-winning documentaries on mental health, Delaney takes a deeply personal approach. She probes into the vulnerable corners of family life, including her own, to explore struggles over social media, video games, academics, and internet addiction. Through poignant and unexpectedly funny stories and surprising insights from authors, psychologists, and brain scientists, Screenagers reveals how.
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This program was delivered at the Muslim Community Center - East Bay (MCC East Bay) in Pleasanton, California on Friday, June 7, 2024.
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