As our rapid tech advancement charges ahead, parents and educators cannot ignore that progress is a double edged sword, with obvious advantages alongside difficult challenges. Perhaps the most difficult of all is screen addiction, which experts and health organizations deem a very real and dangerous problem that harms your child’s health.
Experts commonly define screen addiction as two hours per day. Among other things, addiction causes concentration and learning issues, sleep deprivation and disorders; obesity, eye problems, anxiety and depression, spine and posture problems, impaired social skills and exposure to dangerous behaviors.
A new and ongoing study by the U.S. National Institutes of Health that tests how screen time affects children’s brains found that more than two hours of screen time a day may cause major damage. The data also showed that kids who spend more than two hours a day on screens got lower scores on thinking and language tests.
According to another recent study published by The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, the 4,500 US children who participated in the research had an average of 3.6 hours of recreational screen time per day.
A further depiction of our state of affairs from CNN Health discloses that 50% of teens feel they are addicted to their mobile devices, 66% of parents feel their teens spend too much time on their mobile devices, and 36% of parents feel they argue with their child on a daily basis about device use.
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