Guidelines also stipulate teenagers should have no more than three hours of screen time a day
Archived version: https://archive.ph/0293p
Fear mongering and authoritarian control over minors.
Not sure how this is fear mongering. It’s common knowledge that increased screen time is detrimental to the mind.
This is a health office issuing a guideline, not imposing a law to jail parents that don’t follow it.
“common knowledge” usually means no scientific evidence right?
I really don’t give a fuck what the “common knowledge” about something is. “common knowledge” is that Vitamin C helps when you’re sick and that carrots improve your eyesight.
The reality is neither has any statistically significant impact.
I don’t have kids so I haven’t read up on screen time and it’s effects but if you have scientific studies about this I’d love to see them.
Here you go.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10353947/
Also, here’s a study that found Vitamin C reduces the duration of a cold by an average of 8%.
If I was limited to 3 hours of screen time as a teenager I probably wouldn’t be alive today. I used video games as a coping mechanism to dissociate from my gender dysphoria and (at the time) unsupportive family that I was hiding in the closet from. It wasn’t what I would call healthy but I didn’t exactly have a lot of other options.
Yeah, as teenagers high amounts of screen time is a symptom of other stuff, whether it’s an abusive home situation or mental health issues, or something else
In addition to… What else is there to do as a teenager these days? Especially in a car-centric place?
Kids however probably should have screen time limited, and try to be engaged in other ways, especially their parents, however, many parents are not good parents
Is a TV in the background playing Baby Einstein considered screen time? My daughter is 17 MO and she gets interested on the songs but then goes back to playing. Is she ruined? 😭
The screen isn’t the problem. The content is.
Three hours for teens? Does that include doing homework and such? At that age I was tinkering with C++, does that going as screentime?