I fear my children are overexposed to technology. Experts say I’m right to worry | Sophie Brickman

The status quo puts the onus on parents to monitor what their children are engaging with when they log on - which puts a lot of strain on us mortals

Last week, my six- and three-year-olds kept singing some irritating song with a repeated diggity-dog" and butt wiggle in it. Was that from school? I asked. Oh no, from something on the iPad. Somehow, they'd navigated there from another app I'd approved. And I, of course, had no idea, because my head was under two pillows, a small puddle of drool accumulating on the sheet as I willed myself back to sleep for just another 20 minutes.

Do you know dolphins sleep with half their brain awake?" my first-grader told me, recently, after a trip to the museum.

Sophie Brickman is a contributor to the New Yorker, the New York Times and other publications, and the author of Baby, Unplugged: One Mother's Search for Balance, Reason, and Sanity in the Digital Age