Alison Curtis: Can you put a price on your child's mindfulness?

I must have said: “Read a book, draw, play with the endless toys you got for Christmas,” a million times. But she found none of those suggestions appealing.

Alison Curtis has found a solution to getting her daughter Joan off her screen. 

Over the past year, there is no denying that parents have had to rely on devices a lot more than before. They need them to occupy their children while they try to work. Kids need them for school, to stay connected to friends, and for extracurriculars that have now gone online.

There are days when I would be afraid to tally the amount of time my daughter Joan has been in front of a screen.