Posted on 04/24/2019 10:33:11 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The World Health Organization has issued its first-ever guidance for how much screen time children under 5 should get: not very much, and none at all for those under 1.
The U.N. health agency said Wednesday that kids under 5 should not spend more than one hour watching screens every day — and that less is better.
The guidelines are somewhat similar to advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics. That group recommends children younger than 18 months should avoid screens other than video chats. It says parents of young children under two should choose “high-quality programming” with educational value and that can be watched with a parent to help kids understand what they’re seeing. …
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Electronic devices and tv destroy young minds
The 5-year in front of us at Mass on Easter Sunday could not even put his phone down for the 30 seconds needed for the Our Father prayer.
So are liberals
How much MSM viewing should adults get?
How much viewing of the View is the recommended daily amount?
CNN?
Well so much for me then.
As the oldest child in a BIG Catholic family I ended up spending WAAAAAAAY too much time in front of a screen.
A black-and-white screen that had 3 channels.
Can’t blame my mom, she was exhausted.
...Electronic devices and tv destroy young minds
And are none too great on us oldsters
Nah, get them started ASAP on Grand Theft Auto.
Well it depends what’s on the screen.
I would submit that all of us here benefit from Free Republic, for example.
The various reality shows on TV, in which people act like idiots, are a good example of screen time we should avoid.
And too much screen time , coming at the expense of quality human interaction and activities, is a negative.
That too
Not that I would take UN advice on anything, this pronounce should be common parenting sense. The TV is not a good baby sitter. Its not the type of stimulation a young child needs for healthy brain development. There are a few exceptions, but those are few and far between, not regular viewing.
And New Zealand Mosque Shooter if you can find it.
My kids probably averaged 1 HOUR of screen time through grade school. I learned reading and math [very well, I might add] WITHOUT screens...and saw no reason that my kids could not do the same. And beyond grade school it was Flip Phones ONLY - if they needed web access, it was with me over their shoulders.
Needless to say, most Americans, including, sadly, most FReepers would not agree with the above.
You sound a lot like me. We bought 2 games for each kid. My daughter preferred to read. (We lived at the library) My son’s game was chess. He fell in love with it and played quite a bit. That I didn’t mind. He ended up on his Universities’ Chess Team.
A couple of teachers have told me kids with a lot of screen time before the age of 6 are having low IQ scores.
Good to hear, and yes, it’s not even close. There is absolutely ZERO evidence that ‘technology’ has improved a damn thing in education, and beyond that, there is ZERO evidence that kids who are ‘deprived’ of technology will be hampered for life because of that. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with kids using computers, provided that it is a computer class [such as programming], but no - kids learned to read for thousands of years without ‘technology’ and they learned math for nearly that long, again without ‘technology’. Likewise the Internet provides literally ZERO value to kids beyond what a used encyclopedia will do, until at least high school. Literally nothing good comes of it.
I remember the wire-up our schools craze from about 20 years ago. I didn’t really pay attention, but I should have - there was NEVER any reason to wire-up schools and the fact that the schools were demanding it, should have set off alarm bells in me - but I didn’t think it through. Only when I heard in Texas of reading materials that have a way of ‘quickly changing’ [since they are electronic] did I start to understand why the schools pushed so hard for that capability.
And what scientific methodology did they use to come up with this? Anything? Pulled it out of their butts?
“We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.”
Nikita Khrushchev
Yep, that’s what they did in Texas - the legislature thought that they had them more or less forced into using decent books, by not being willing to pay for propaganda. So the schools simply did a workaround and got their ‘books’ electronic, for free.
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