The ubiquity of screens and their prominence in everyday life has drawn criticism and concerns, with Microsoft veteran and philanthropist Melinda Gates writing about not being “prepared for smartphones and social media” as a parent and news headlines questioning whether smartphones have “ destroyed a generation.”īut what does the research say? This roundup looks at the effects of screen time on children’s health. Just last month the World Health Organization issued guidelines on the subject, stressing that children between the ages of 2 and 4 should have no more than one hour of screen time per day. This is in spite of official guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which recommends less than one hour per day of screen time for children between the ages of 2 and 5, and, for older children, “consistent limits” on screen time and prioritization of sleep, physical activity and other healthy behaviors over media use. spend over two hours a day on recreational screen time. In fact, recent research finds that 63% of kids in the U.S. Gone are visions of idyllic childhoods spent frolicking in fields and playing in pastures for many kids, green grass has been replaced with smartphone screens. This research roundup, originally published in May 2019, has been updated to include a recent systematic review and meta-analysis looking at the effects of screen time on academic performance.
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