TOMORROW: SCREENAGERS: Growing up in the Digital Age

SCREENAGERS will be shown at Milton High School on May 17, 2016 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and are available through Eventbrite.com. Students can attend the film for FREE. A discussion will follow the film with Parent-Solutions Parent Coach, Beth Greenawalt. A Parent Guide will be available to all parents attending the film.

Physician and filmmaker, Delaney Ruston decided to make SCREENAGERS when she found herself constantly struggling with her two kids about screen time. Ruston felt guilty and confused, not sure what limits were best, especially around mobile phones, social media, gaming, and how to monitor online homework. Hearing repeatedly how other parents were equally overwhelmed, she realized this is one of the biggest, unexplored parenting issues of our time. Director Ruston turned the camera on her own family and others—revealing stories that depict messy struggles over social media, video games, academics and internet addiction. Interwoven into these stories, are cutting edge science and insights from thought leaders such as Peggy Orenstein, Sherry Turkle, Simon Sinek, as well as leading brain scientists who present evidence on real changes happening in the brain. SCREENAGERS goes far beyond exposing the risks of screen time, but reveals multiple approaches on how parents and educators can work with kids to help them achieve a healthy amount of screen time.