Educazione digitale familiare dalla nascita: Il pediatra protagonista nel progetto Custodi digitali = The digital education for families starts from birth and family paediatricians play a central role in the “Custodi Digitali” project

The paper presents a project concerning the digital education for families. The paediatrician is the central figure in this project and leads parents towards a conscious management of digital media, giving them and their children specific indications for all age groups, starting from birth. The project, developed with the direct involvement of paediatricians in multidisciplinary groups, is based on scientific evidence and has been the subject of extensive experimentation in the field. Parents are offered not only limits but also alternative and complementary activities, useful for the development of their children and the improvement of the quality of their personal relationships. The continuous training of paediatricians, the annual updating of materials and research for impact assessment are the basis for the implementation of the project. The territorial educational alliance is a fundamental step in the digital education for the family, which is a subject that poses several open challenges in which the family paediatrician is called to play a central role.