Presented via the Shadow Project.  Originally broadcast during the pandemic, this presentation outlines five domains of non-screen activity to support in children during unstructured seasons like summer: https://www.shadow-project.org/fostering-healthy-rhythms-irl/ 

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Kathryn Stevenson, a private educational research consultant and member of The Shadow Project’s community advisory board, assisted the research team in adapting existing measures of home literacy environment, parental self efficacy, and parental resources into brief, low-burden surveys that could be completed on a daily basis through the Wear-IT mobile app.

“This study is especially exciting because it allows us to capture parents’ ‘good days’ and ‘bad days’, and better quantify what factors are associated with each," said Stevenson. "Parents can experience a lot of ups and downs in the normal course of life, and their feelings and experience changes from day to day and week to week. Simply asking a parent ‘what’s going on’ or ‘how are you doing’ on one occasion doesn’t always give you a clear picture as to what parents are experiencing or what they need. By contrast, following parents across time can help us gain a more complete understanding. Wear-IT helps us do this in a convenient way that does not overwhelm parents. This research can guide the design of programs and resources that support parents by making their ‘good days’ better or more frequent, or reducing the frequency or impact of bad days.”