Guidelines also stipulate teenagers should have no more than three hours of screen time a day

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Fear mongering and authoritarian control over minors.

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Children can have phones, tablets, etc when they are old enough to purchase them with their own income.

Before that, a desktop with parental control software is more than enough for schoolwork.

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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.

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“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.

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“I don’t have kids but I am confidently throwing my ass around and calling it information relevant to kids”

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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%.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23440782/

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A two year old isn’t a ‘minor.’ No two year old can be trusted alone for any amount of time. In fact, leaving a two year alone to their own devices is considered child abuse.

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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.

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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

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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? 😭

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It’s over, her first words will be, “we need to stop the Rizzler from flushing charged lemonade down the skibidi toilet” and you will be the sole blame.

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The screen isn’t the problem. The content is.

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Three hours for teens? Does that include doing homework and such? At that age I was tinkering with C++, does that going as screentime?

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