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