--- title: Five Best: Screen Time Fight is Causing Parents to Disagree description: The screen time debate is pitting parents against each other, can a social robot help kids learn to disagree better and more. canonical: https://time.com/5192997/the-screen-time-debate-is-pitting-parents-against-each-other/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-09T17:00:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:01.281Z article:section: Ideas og:title: The Screen Time Debate is Pitting Parents Against Each Other og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5192997/the-screen-time-debate-is-pitting-parents-against-each-other/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Screen Time Debate is Pitting Parents Against Each Other twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Screen Time Debate is Pitting Parents Against Each Other by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 9, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 9, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The screen time debate is pitting parents against each other.**](https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/8/17095582/smartphone-screen-time-parenting-child-development) By Lauren Smiley in the _Verge_ **2\.** [**Can a social robot help kids learn to disagree better?**](https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/keepon-helps-kids-learn-to-argue-better) By Evan Ackerman at _IEEE Spectrum_ **3\.** [**How ride-hailing services like Uber can boost mobility for women around the world.**](https://www.cfr.org/blog/five-things-global-study-ride-hailing-tells-us-about-women-and-sharing-economy) By Alexa Roscoe at the _Council on Foreign Relations_ **4\.** [**New research confirms that lies almost always outperform the truth on Twitter.**](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/largest-study-ever-fake-news-mit-twitter/555104/) By Robinson Meyer in the _Atlantic_ **5\.** [**Our houses are fine. Why are Americans obsessed with renovations?**](https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/7/17087588/home-renovation-unnecessary-mcmansion-hell-wagner) By Kate Wagner at _Curbed_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5192997/the-screen-time-debate-is-pitting-parents-against-each-other/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5192997/the-screen-time-debate-is-pitting-parents-against-each-other/"},"headline":"The Screen Time Debate is Pitting Parents Against Each Other","datePublished":"2018-03-09T17:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:01.281Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5192997/the-screen-time-debate-is-pitting-parents-against-each-other/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Innovation","Technology","twitter","housing","Uber"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5192997/the-screen-time-debate-is-pitting-parents-against-each-other/","name":"The Screen Time Debate is Pitting Parents Against Each Other"}}]}] ```