Is It Too Soon to Give My Kid a Tablet?

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April 17, 2020

Lisa Guernsey was quoted in The New York Times about the so-called three C’s, a concept developed by her regarding kid's exposure to devices' screens.

Content, context and your child represent the so-called three C’s, a concept developed by the early learning expert Lisa Guernsey, a former New York Times reporter who is now the director of the teaching, learning and tech program at the nonprofit New America.

“We need to focus on the content on the screen. The context: how we’re interacting with children around that media, and making sure that they have good interactions when they’re not with the media. And then the child, our children: We understand our kids, we know what’s going to delight them, we know what kinds of questions they might ask from it, we need to just tune in to see what they understand from it,” Ms. Guernsey said in her TEDx talk about how screens affect young children.

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