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Parents and clinicians at Norwalk panel recommend simple rules, watch for behavior 'signals' and expand after-school options
Summary
Clinicians and parents at a Norwalk School District panel recommended family strategies (accountability contracts, Tech Talk Tuesdays, removing phones from bedrooms), highlighted mental-health signals parents should watch for, and urged more after-school programming after a student reported about 40% lack activities.
Clinicians, parents and students at a Norwalk School District panel framed screen-time management as a family-and-community project, offering short-term practical steps that parents can start this week.
Emily Longo, director of family therapy at Silver Hill Hospital, urged parents to think of behavioral changes as "signals" that prompt calm, curious conversations rather than immediate punishment. "Parents, caregivers, you are the experts on your children…
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