DAVENPORT, IOWA (January 22, 2020) — A parent group at St Paul the Apostle School is hosting a movie they encourage all parents and educators to attend. St Paul’s Navigating Technology Together (NTT) will show Screenagers on Tuesday, February 11. Doors open at 6PM and the movie starts at 6:30PM in St Paul’s Denning Hall. This is a free event.
Screenagers is the first feature documentary to explore the impact of screen technology on kids and offer parents and families proven solutions that work. What started out as a personal story for the filmmaker has grown into a national movement, helping millions of teens and their families navigate growing up in a world with instant access to screens.
Physician and filmmaker Delaney Ruston decided to make Screenagers when she found herself constantly struggling with her two kids about screen-time. Ruston felt guilty and confused, not sure what limits were best, especially around mobile phones, social media, gaming, and how to monitor online homework. Hearing repeatedly how other parents were equally overwhelmed, she realized this is one of the biggest, unexplored parenting issues of our time.
Ruston brings to light stories of messy struggles over social media, video games, academics, and internet addiction.
Screenagers isn’t just about exposing the risks of screen time. Most importantly, it reveals multiple approaches on how parents and educators can work with kids to help them achieve a healthy amount of screen time.
NTT hopes this viewing of Screenagers will bring parents and educators together to start a conversation in our community about how screen time impacts lives and what they can do about it.
NTT’s mission is coming together to support and educate families as we navigate today's world of technology. The group meets quarterly and is open to anyone in the community. For more information, contact them at spsntt@gmail.com.
