Education|Piia Häkkinen’s family has tried all kinds of ways to reduce children’s screen time. In the spring, the family adopted a checkbook as a habit.
The summary is made by artificial intelligence and checked by a human.
Piia Häkkinen’s family monitors the use of smart devices with the help of a screen monitor.
The family members record their daily screen time every evening at eight o’clock.
Exceeding the three-hour screen time limit will result in a ban on using the phone the following day.
However, the system is not without holes, and Häkkinen hopes for legal restrictions on the use of smart devices.
Multi a parent struggles with how to curb children’s excessive screen time. I live in Juva in Etelä Savo Piia Häkkinen In the spring, the family invented a practice in which children and parents participate.
At its core is the accurate monitoring of screen time.
Every evening at eight o’clock, each family member records the screen time accumulated during the day in a common screen notebook. A smartphone should be used for a maximum of three hours per day. Telephones are not used at night.
In Häkkinen’s opinion, three hours is also too much, but something has to be drawn and for teenagers it is difficult to go below that. In addition to his wife, Häkkinen’s family includes a 16-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter.
If three hours are exceeded, the smartphone may not be used the next day. At most, you can quickly glance at the most important messages.
Parents have no problem being away from the screen, Häkkinen assures. They spend most of their time reading the news. For children, on the other hand, it is difficult.
According to Häkkinen, the son of the family spends time on the phone playing games and watching videos, the daughter browsing Snapchat and Tiktok and messaging her friends through them.
According to Häkkinen, Tiktok in particular is really addictive and it’s easy to get stuck on it for a long time at a time.
“We have tried all sorts of ways [vähentää ruutuaikaa] and Tiktok has crashed all businesses.”.
When the children were younger, their phones had a paid program that allowed you to limit what kind of applications the phone could access and how long they could be used. When the time limit was reached, the program could be used to lock the device so that, for example, it could only be used to make calls or send messages.
“In theory, this was a great thing, but when it’s difficult to implement a solution with Android phones where one application controls the others, the children learn to bypass the lock,” says Häkkinen.
“Both figured out how to do it, and the program was completely pointless after that.”
In the spring, in the Häkkinen family, screen time was curbed with the help of screen hate and phone bans.
The system is not without holes.
Häkkinen says that their son follows the three-hour screen time limit exactly.
“He strives to optimize his activities every day so that the screen time is not reduced, but he achieves it in three hours.”
The daughter’s screen time, on the other hand, constantly exceeds the three-hour limit, and the parents rarely have to forbid the use of the phone that day. Both children and parents get nervous.
“We have to forcefully put the phone away from time to time, because no promise of reducing screen time holds true.”
Such times in the Häkkinen family were spent with smart devices in August.
Caged feels powerless. Smart devices are such an integral part of everyday life that it seems impossible to keep children away from them.
And when communicating with friends on social media, the restrictions on the use of a smart device seem to the child like destroying social life, Häkkinen says.
“Some of the friends are ones whose parents don’t care or can’t stand all this fighting,” says Häkkinen.
Häkki feels that even at school, children are expected to have their phones with them every day. Syllabus and homework appear in Wilma and assignments are made in classes where everyone has to use the phone, he lists.
“Just now I got a message from the physical education teacher that orienteering is starting at the school and for safety reasons everyone must have a phone with them.”
In others In the Nordic countries, public health agencies have drawn up recommendations for children’s use of smart devices.
For example, according to recommendations published in Sweden at the beginning of September, 2-year-olds should not use smart devices at all, and older children should limit their use. Children aged 2-5 should have no more than one hour of screen time per day, 1-2 hours per day for 6-12 year olds and no more than 2-3 hours per day for 13-18 year olds.
There are no similar recommendations in Finland, but there has been a discussion about whether the Institute of Health and Welfare (THL) should also publish its own, separate instructions regarding screen time.
Häkkinen considers the recommendations to be a good thing, but would like more drastic measures.
“Of course, children should learn to self-regulate, but I personally think that, by law, a mechanical system should be installed on all devices, which would allow the phone to be locked for a while so that it could no longer be used to make calls and send normal messages,” says Häkkinen.
“It would do us all a lot of good.”
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