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Teaching our children ‘digital resilience’ at an early age is increasingly becoming one of the most important skills you can give them.  TimeTokens can help you teach your child some of these essential life skills in a fun and easy way - simples! Many parents are exasperated by their child’s tech overload, and the degree to which tablets, video games, laptops and smart phones have taken over family life. Lucy Watts, Educational Consultant and former Headmistress of Eaton House, says that in recent years, she has seen a huge increase in the number of children being driven by device time.  She...

Here is our summary of some advice from global experts to give a little clarity around how screentime affects your child and how much of it they should be allowed. First thing to remember; all screentime is not all bad.  Let’s agree on that.  Our 7-year-old children will be employed in jobs in 2030 that we can’t even conceive of in 2017. Plus, it is certain that digital skills will be essential.  It’s the sheer volume of time children are spending on screens that concerns us.  Excessive screen time prevents them from doing all the things they need to do...

We are so proud to be included at No 6 in Anna Tyzack's brilliant piece on How to Futureproof your child in The Daily Telegraph.  Read the full article here:- How do you prepare your child for a career in rewilding strategies or memory storage? These crazy-sounding jobs could be among the careers today’s schoolchildren will embark upon. “We don’t know what the future holds, only that children are going to have a very different career structure from our own,” says Hugh Milward, a father of four and head of corporate affairs for Microsoft.  With so much at stake, it’s no wonder...

If your house is anything like mine, you’ll know that too much screen time doesn’t help the kids at all. Mine gets super moody and grumpy, so we have to limit access – for their sanity and ours. They’ve got in to the habit that all devices are a treat, not a right, and they do always ask to use them. If all is well and there’s nothing else that needs doing and it’s not too near bedtime, they’re allowed them. And that strategy has been working, but the problem is, at times, I forget they’re on them, especially if I am...