The aim is not to remove gaming or screen-time by default. It is to widen the ways we rest, connect and feel capable as summer gives way to September.
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Read MoreDigital habit change has a peculiar way of activating perfectionism. Because technology is so visible and measurable, it tempts us into scorekeeping. Screen time totals. Daily averages. Streaks. The data can be useful, but it can also quietly recruit the threat and drive systems into overactivity.
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