Taking the "Mirror" as a Guide: Co-Creating a Healthy Family Digital Ecosystem with Children

In the digital age, screens have become a standard feature of family life, and many families are falling into a similar predicament: parents keep their eyes glued to their phones and scroll through short videos endlessly, yet turn around and strictly forbid their children from touching electronic devices; they themselves cannot put down social media apps before bed, yet urge their children to rest as soon as possible. This double-standard parenting approach not only fails to keep children away from screen addiction but also tends to intensify parent-child conflicts, and family problems triggered by the use of digital products are becoming increasingly severe. From the perspective of developmental psychology, children's screen behavior is not simply a matter of "insufficient self-control" but the result of long-term shaping by the family digital environment. Simple one-way restriction, ...