PremiumOpinionCecilia Robinson is a founder and co-chief executive of digi-physical primary care provider Tend Health.‌A new University of Auckland review has pulled together global longitudinal evidence on the longer-term effects of screen use on children’s executive function. I was standing in our kitchen recently, doing what so many parents do at the end of a long day: negotiating screen time, homework, dinner and bedtime, all at once.

We are probably stricter than many families. Screens in our house mostly mean television. Our eldest does not have social