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Healthy Screen Time Resources

Better Screen Time
Don’t just survive. Help your family thrive in a world of technology.
Child Screen Time Toolkit
The Child Screen Time Toolkit below is based on evidence, best-practices, and findings from an external messaging campaign conducted in 2019 for the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living.This toolkit consists of resources, data, tools, and guides. Use this toolkit to learn about child and adolescent screen time in Texas and how you can impact our state's health as a parent, school, community member, or policymaker.
No So Connection Collective
NoSo Connection Collective is a by-youth, for-youth nonprofit collective leading a global, grassroots movement dedicated to protecting youth wellbeing by educating, mobilizing, and empowering young people to leverage their agency over the technology that impacts their lives.
Wait Until 8th
The Wait Until 8th pledge empowers parents to rally together to delay giving children a smartphone until at least the end of 8th grade. Let’s protect the elementary and middle school years from the distractions and the dangers of a smartphone. Banding together helps decrease the pressure to have a phone at an early age. Ten years old is the average age children get their first smartphone. You can change this!