Image
2025 "children and screens" campaign: Arcom's advice for protecting youngsters
Translations are provided as a service to Arcom users and are supplied “as is”, throught the DeepL tool. Consequently, only the text of the original version is authentic.
Every year, Arcom organizes an awareness-raising campaign, relayed by the audiovisual media, on children's relationship with screens. The 2025 edition runs from Friday July 4 to Monday July 7.
Arcom's mission: protecting persons under 18
In 2025, Arcom is renewing its "Children and Screens" campaign, running from Friday July 4 to Monday July 7, with the aim of helping parents make the best use of screens for their children.
The Arcom campaign concerns all screens (television, tablet, computer, smartphone, etc.).
All TV channels are required to participate and relay this campaign, and radio stations are encouraged to join in.
Through TV spots and printable materials, Arcom stresses the importance of protecting children from the risks associated with early or excessive exposure to screens.
Supporting children's development
Les Tout-petits
Toddlers develop by acting on the world; interactions with their environment, especially their parents, and discoveries using their five senses are essential to their healthy development (language, motor skills, etc.). We therefore advise against using screens before the age of 3, as they risk confining them to the passive role of spectator, at a time when they need to learn to become actors in the world around them.
Image
Biggest children
For older children, the use of screens must be accompanied by parents to ensure that the elements essential to the child's development and well-being are preserved (quality sleep, real interaction with others, regular physical activity, etc.).
Some good practices to adopt :
- limit screen time, by determining in advance the activity (broadcasting a program, playing an educational game, etc.) to which this time will be devoted;
- avoid screens before bedtime and in the bedroom;
- set aside screen-free times, especially at mealtimes.
Image
Arcom leaflet "Using screens, it can be learned!"
Arcom has put together a leaflet for children's family and educational circles, with practical advice on the use of screens in the broadest sense, and the rules of caution and respect for others to be observed online.
Campaign TV spot
During the four days of the campaign,a large number of TV channels will show the spot below (designed by France Télévisions and made available to all publishers).
Arcom's Youngsters Expert Committee
To carry out its mission of protecting person under 18s, Arcom relies on a committee of experts made up of personalities with diverse and complementary skills, in direct contact with the world of childhood and adolescence.
The committee meets as part of the working group in charge of the protection of minors,"Protection des publics et diversité de la société française", chaired by Laurence Pécaut-Rivolier, advisor to the Arcom college.
Since its renewal in January 2024, it has been made up of eighteen specialists in childhood, adolescence, audiovisual and digital issues.
Image
Olivier ANDRIEU-GÉRARD
Coordinator of the "media-digital uses" unit at the Union nationale des associations familiales (UNAF) (French national union of family associations)
Justine ATLAN
Managing Director, e-Enfance
Agnès BACRIE
Elementary school principal
Grégoire BORST
Professor of Developmental Psychology and Educational Cognitive Neuroscience (Université Paris Cité)
Director, Laboratoire de Psychologie du Développement et de l'éducation de l'enfant (LaPsyDÉ-CNRS)
François-Marie CARON
Pediatrician
Association Française de Pédiatrie Ambulatoire, Expert for Mpédia.fr
Béatrice COPPER-ROYER
Child and adolescent psychologist
Éric DELEMAR
Children's Ombudsman for the Rights Defender
Sabine DUFLO
Psychologist and family therapist in child psychiatry (Centre médico-psychologique pour enfants et adolescents, and consultation spécialisée addictions aux écrans. Attached to EPSM G. Daumezon)
Rose-Marie FARINELLA
Media and information educator, former journalist and school teacher
Christel GONNARD
Screenwriter and writing director
Azmina GOULAMALY
Director, Pipangaï animation studio
Paul JACQUIN
Pediatrician (adolescent medicine)
Emmanuel MARTIN
Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, Ubisoft
Amélia MATAR
Founder of Colori
Ovidie
Director, journalist and author
Georges PICHEROT
Pediatrician, former head of pediatrics at Nantes University Hospital
Thomas ROHMER
Chairman, Observatoire de la parentalité et de l'éducation numérique (OPEN)
Nicolas VIGNOLLES
General Delegate, Syndicat des éditeurs de logiciels de loisirs (SELL)
On the same subject
08 February 2024
Youth protection: Arcom calls on experts in youngsters' protection
To keep pace with developments in Arcom's youth protection missions and objectives, the Authority has relied since 2005 on a committee of youngsters' experts, made up of professionals in direct contact with the world of childhood and adolescence.
17 February 2026
Media literacy and digital citizenship
Welcome to the Arcom section dedicated to media literacy and digital citizenship!
Given the abundance of information available, and the growing participation of non-journalists in the creation of content, it's essential to understand how information circulates, and how audiovisual and digital media work.
Whether you're a teacher, parent, student or professional, our aim is to provide you with advice and tools to help you navigate the media universe with discernment, develop your critical mind and become responsible digital citizens.
Explore our resources to better understand the mechanisms of information.
17 February 2026
Protection of young people and persons under 18
One of Arcom's missions is to prevent children and teenagers from seeing or hearing online programs or content that could harm their mental, moral or physical development.