Creating a Healthy Technology Environment for Your Child (Birth to Five)

Be tech wise with your baby

New parents have so much to consider. They may not be thinking about how to manage screens around their new baby.

Since technology overuse can be harmful to children’s health and development, this free resource for prospective and new parents encourages healthy screen-time habits from day one to allow babies to thrive. 

Available in English and Spanish, the handout covers:

• how to boost baby’s brain development and communication skills from birth;
• ways that screen use by babies — and their caregivers — can impact a child’s healthy development
• tips for creating a home environment that sets baby up for optimal growth.

Download Tech Wise with Baby in English

Download Tech Wise with Baby in Spanish

Be tech wise with your toddler

Parents and caregivers are inundated with often-conflicting recommendations on screen time and technology usage by children. 

Be Tech Wise With Toddler! focuses on children ages 1 to 3 years who are in a unique developmental period during which they build the foundational language, learning, literacyThe ability to understand oral language, read fluently, and write well. , and social–emotional skills they’ll need for life. This is also a time when many children begin to use tablets, smartphones, and other screens — which can interrupt their healthy development.

Available in English and Spanish, the handout covers:

• daily activities that help parents and caregivers boost their child’s brain, communication, and social–emotional development
• official screen time recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics
• the benefits of screen-free time — and how excessive screen use can disrupt a toddler’s development
• tips and advice for creating a healthy technology environment in the home

Download Tech Wise with Toddler in English

Download Tech Wise with Toddler in Spanish

Be tech wise with your preschooler

It can be difficult for parents and caregivers to know how to support their children as they grow and develop in a world full of screens.

Specifically designed for families with children ages 3 to 5 years, Be Tech Wise With Preschoolers! covers ways that parents and caregivers can encourage their child’s budding communication, social­–emotional, and learning skills — as well as tips for achieving healthy screen time habits — at a unique and critical point in child development.

Available in English and Spanish, the resource also answers the following questions:

• Should I buy my child a tablet?
• Does my child need apps to help them learn?
• How can I occupy my preschooler while caring for a new baby?

Download Tech Wise with Preschoolers in English

Download Tech Wise with Preschoolers in Spanish

Note 

Screens and technology in this resource refer to popular technology devices such as smartphones, not augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices that are used to enable communication. AAC devices should be used at all times, in an interactive way.