Family digital plan
Build routines around sleep, meals, homework, privacy, and shared expectations.
Get the guideChildren’s Digital Wellbeing Initiative
Make room for childhood in a digital world.
We help families, schools, and communities create healthier digital habits while advocating for technology that respects children’s safety, privacy, sleep, and development.
A healthier balance
Sleep
Play
Connection
Device time
The case for balance
Digital life should support growing up, not crowd it out.
Devices and social platforms can help children learn, create, communicate, and belong. But poorly designed or excessive digital use can displace sleep, movement, face-to-face connection, and focused attention.
Healthy Digital Childhood turns the evidence into practical steps and constructive public action. We focus on preventable harm without treating every device, app, or family the same.
Start here
Practical help for real households.
Respond to online harm
Know what to do when cyberbullying, harmful content, or unwanted contact appears.
Learn the stepsFor schools
Explore balanced device policies, digital citizenship, and implementation tools.
Explore school tools01Clear evidence
Our approach
Understand. Protect. Improve.
We translate research into decisions people can use, protect children from preventable digital harms, and work toward safer technology and stronger public policy.
See our principlesUnderstandEvidence with context, limits, and sources.
ProtectPractical support for families and schools.
ImproveChild-centered design and accountable policy.
Build the movement
A healthier digital childhood takes all of us.
We are developing this initiative with families, young people, educators, researchers, clinicians, and community partners. Add your perspective as the work takes shape.
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