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Guidelines also stipulate teenagers should have no more than three hours of screen time a day
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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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Did the link provided by OP say anything about houses, wheels, or toys? If not I believe my reply was in the correct context with what was provided. Perhaps you need some time limits on your own personal tech…
TIL: Lemmy doesn’t know what /s means
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?
Cave parenting is best parenting.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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? 😭
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.
Green@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.
curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
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.
Green@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
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.