Guidelines also stipulate teenagers should have no more than three hours of screen time a day
Archived version: https://archive.ph/0293p
I wouldn’t say that screens themselves damage attention spans or anything, but when the screen is the tool to deliver the lowest consumable content imaginable, cutting out the screens is the way to go.
This recommendation is understandable, but as with anything moderation is key. Not just in terms of how much screen time you allow, but the type of content they interact with.
Yup.
I’ve got two kids, the amount of time they get consuming content is limited, the content they have access to is only from my media server (so very curated), and occasional extras like crafting/drawing/etc when we are sitting next to them. And even that I’m moving to the media server due to the ads, which are impossible to really curate and can be very, very odd…
The physical presence of a screen being on is not an issue. Using it as a replacement for parenting is an issue. Especially under 2.
I just wish it wasn’t so much effort to manage content that other parents could do it more easily.
We also have a media server, and I too wish it were easier to set up so more parents could have more control over the content viewed. As it is, I’m thinking to upgrade our machine so it can handle multiple streams both locally and from other houses.
The other parents we interact with like the concept of limited curation, but they lack the technical experience to get it set up and so they rely on Netflix, Prime, and Disney+. Maybe I’ll get around to it this winter haha.
That’s what I do, nieces and nephews. They are a bit older than my kids, and their parents are not tech savvy.
I basically have a kids library for anything under PG, and I grab common sense media ratings for a decent estimate on appropriate age, and let them go from there. Then I use tags for what we find appropriate for our kids.
Some of them still use other things I wouldn’t go near (YouTube kids, ffs that place is wild and weird), but that’s their decision not mine.
FWIW I run mine off an 8th gen Intel, igpu for transcoding (though mostly I don’t need to transcoded), on a little lenovo tiny workstation I picked up on the cheap. Storage is on my NAS.
All time with tech as a child should be limited and parents need to watch what they are doing. Just like the tv generation it is easy to let it babysit but it comes with a cost.
All time with tech as a child should be limited
Akshually a house is also technology, and so are wheels and toys. You want to limit children’s time with those? Hm??
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Do you believe that when a press report uses the phrase “The White House said today…” the the announcer actually thinks that the building spoke?
Three hours for teens? Does that include doing homework and such? At that age I was tinkering with C++, does that going as screentime?
The screen isn’t the problem. The content is.
Not the first time in my life I’ve changed position based on evidence. Not the last.
The only reason to ask questions is to listen to answers, rhetorics be damned.