Our community toolkit
Children and youth in Canada need everyone’s help to make screen use safer.
Use our new toolkit to learn how screens impact health and development, educate members of your community, and advocate for online safety.
For informed decisions that keep kids safe
Guidance for parents, policymakers and health professionals.
Centre for Healthy Screen Use At the Canadian Paediatric Society
New and Notable
Do age bans keep children and youth safe online?
Age bans can be part of a solution, but are insufficient on their own.
Why are they not enough protection?
Children routinely bypass age gates, and age verification tools are imperfect.
Visit our Q&A Bank for more information on what's needed to make age verification tools effective and the other online protections needed to keep children and youth safe.
Healthy Teens: A podcast for parents
Is screen time connected to anxiety and depression in children and youth?
Learn what the research has to say in this new episode. Guest Dr. Emma Duerden also provides practical tips on identifying problematic use and managing screen time as a family.
Healthy Teens is a podcast from the Canadian Paediatric Society. Listen now.
