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Screens and Self-Control by Maryellen Mullin in Psyched in SF Magazine

11/9/2016

 
Modern society struggles with self-control around the use of devices and technology. At home, if you parent, these struggles intensify as adults and kids react with irritability, anger and hostility when interrupted on a device, or told to turn off a device to do homework, get dinner made or get to bed.

“It’s like my kid is a drug addict,” says one parent. “The more she consumes technology, the harder it is to get her to turn it off.”

An adolescent commented, “My dad says not to text and drive, but that’s what he does driving me to school in the morning.”

To read the full article, please visit:
psychedinsanfrancisco.com/screens-self-control


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    Maryellen  P. Mullin, ​LMFT

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