Guest Post: Hold that Text

By Delaney Ruston, M.D.

(NCCE welcomes Dr. Ruston to the NCCE Tech-Savvy Teacher blog for a series of posts related to the impact of technology on the lives of adolescents.  The NCCE 2019 conference will feature a screening of Dr. Rushton’s movie, Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age, followed by a Q&A session with Dr. Rushton and Marc Elliott, the CIO for the Olympia School District.  Register today!)

Your kid is at school…and something pops into your head that you want to tell your child—plans for dinner have changed, plans after school changed, the doctor appointment tomorrow is confirmed, you love them, etc. What do you do? Do you send the text right when the thought comes, or hold off?

I have started to change my practice around this. Awhile back I was more apt to text right away. Given the lenient phone policies of my teens’ schools in the past, I knew they were receiving snaps and texts from peers all day long, so why would my occasional text make a difference?

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