Parent Survey Step 1 of 8 12% Privacy Anonymous Okay for Larissa to use your name/answer. Name Email Are you a parent? Yes No How many children do you have?How old are your children? What is your occupation 1. Over the past 10 years, how has children’s behaviour changed?2. What are the challenges you face with phones/gaming affecting medical conditions, eating disorders, body image, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts in your home?3. Absenteeism and late arrivals at school have risen dramatically. Do you feel this from extended phone use or parents letting their children stay up later? Do your children stay up late?4. How many times a day are you telling your children to put their phones away while you are speaking to them at home?5. Are you teaching your child proper phone etiquette and manners on how to use their phone? 6. “Many teachers mentioned to me they are constantly telling children to put away their cell phones. I have put together a scenario that many teachers have shared they are experiencing. A teacher asks a student in their class to put away his phone away, one day was 31 times, to one student. Somedays this is multiple students and not always the same student. Teachers feel they are coming behind with her curriculum because students need instructions repeated several times. Do you feel this addictive behaviour should be stopped in schools to help children’s mental health and students could learn more effectively?7. Would you like to see a full ban on cell phones from school property so children can focus and curb their anxiety during the day and teach them how to focus?8. Do you feel students are less social at school or in general? How could we fix this?9. Do you feel there is a decline in students coming out for sports, activities or clubs based on what you are seeing?10. Do you feel Education should change the behaviours that are allowed to happen now in schools? 11. Do you feel children are more combative when you try to take their phones away from them or ask them to do something in your clinic rooms?12. Do you feel children are more violent and rude than 10-15 years ago?13. We now know the link between extended phone time and mood disorders are increasing. How can you change your screen routines at home for your children to prevent the possibility of mental health disorders?14. How many hours of screen time do your children have every day? This includes, earbuds, gaming, ipads and phones.15. Do you let your children in their rooms? 16. Do you think Education should change moving forward to help prevent childhood anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts?17. How do you think medicine should change these unwanted behaviours moving forward to help prevent childhood anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts?18. Have you seen any inappropriate photos, cyberbullying or luring on your children’s phones?19. How did you manage any of the above issues?20. Have you had to approach other parents about issues with your child? How did that go? 21. What if you had Tips, Strategies and routines to help you manage all of the issues with phones in an ebook?22. Do you wish for your answers to remain anonymous or kept for private research but still for educational purposes?23. What is your parenting style would you say?24. Do you feel parents are letting children rule the roost? If so, how?25. Do you feel tweens and teens are on more anxiety/depression meds than 10 years ago? Why do you think this is? 26. Do you feel children today are as outgoing as they were 10 years ago?27. Do you think other parents are more rude and disrespectful now than 10 years ago?28. Is your child a coachable child? How do you know?29. Do you see parents misbehaving at sporting events? How do you educate your children about this behaviour?30. How would you like to see the medical community help parents and students decrease the amount of unhealthy screen time children are doing now? 31. Any comments or thoughts?
