If you are a parent or carer of a child who is old enough to attend school, you are probably well aware of the friction that screen time can create within any family unit. As parents/carers it is an extremely difficult area to navigate and we can become overwhelmed with the often-conflicting advice that we are offered. In considering this topic we firstly need to think about what we mean when we talk about screen time. This is a generic term used by the media that actually covers all manner of devices such as television, smart phones, tablets, computers, video game screens. The term is further complicated by the fact that there is an infinite number of ways you can engage with each of these devices, completing online work, communicating with our friends, recording our steps, looking up a recipe, playing video games just to mention a few. How much time is too much? Unfortunately, here is no easy answer to this question. The research would suggest that we need to move a