For the most part, he emphasized the importance of active parenting and the need for parents to help their children limit their use of screens and related technology.
- Since the mid-90’s, there are more female than male university graduates in Canada
- Playing video games—which is primarily a male preoccupation—more than six hours per week has a negative and roughly linear effect on academic achievement
- Video games reward distractibility; there is some research supporting the inability to concentrate in school with the frequency of video gaming
- Girls are becoming significantly more anxious and reporting more problems sleeping
- Girls post five times more photos on their Facebook page than boys do and generally are more active users of social media than boys
- Girls are more likely than boys to feel that other teenagers are having more fun than they are
- Dr. Sax believes that no child under the age of 13 needs a smartphone
- Parents should not allow students to have mobile devices in their bedrooms after 9 p.m.
- Studies show a positive correlation between positive mental health in teenagers and eating dinner as a family on a regular basis; this includes no mobile devices at the dinner table.