#Relationships

Summer is just around the corner. The days are getting longer, after school activities are wrapping up, and homework will soon disappear! As summer holidays approach, families make plans for holidays, camps and time away from school. Unstructured time provides many opportunities to engage with friends and family, create, read, play, or get outside, to name a few. Unstructured time can also provide increased access to screens. How can parents balance expectations and access? How can screen time be monitored? What does summer and screen time look like?

There are many suggestions and guidelines to help families navigate these questions. This month’s email provides links, videos and articles to help parents have conversations with their children about screen time during the summer. While this is the final message for this school year, monthly emails will resume in September. Have a wonderful summer!

*NEW: For parents who are interested in reading further on the topic of #Relationships in a Digital Age, CTR staff Recommended Reads are located on CTR's website under About and #Relationships.

Additional articles related to this topic can be found at #Relationships on the CTR Catholic website.

The founder of the movie Screenagers discusses conversation tips for parents and their children around screen time management.

Christ The Redeemer (CTR) Catholic Schools will create a culture around the use of technology that teaches balance between our digital lives and the lives we lead face-to-face to love in community as God intended.

Christ The Redeemer (CTR) Catholic Schools operates in seven communities throughout the province of Alberta providing authentic Catholic education to students in 15 traditional schools, four Outreach schools and a distance education school.

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