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Local Doctors Share Insights on Raising Screen-Smart Kids

With devices in classrooms, homework on tablets and social media beckoning at every turn, local pediatricians offer a more forgiving — and more effective — approach to raising screen-smart kids.

It starts at school. A New Orleans first-grader logs onto an iPad to practice spelling. By middle school, that same device carries homework portals, group chats and, often, a personal phone tucked into a backpack. The bell rings, the bus comes and the screens come home, too — onto a couch, into a bedroom, propped […]

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