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Kids Are On Screen Almost A Third Of Their Lives!

27 Apr 2024 · 0 min

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In this brief commentary, Dr. Juna Bobby MD, EdM highlights research indicating that children spend roughly a quarter to a third of their waking hours in front of screens—more time than they spend in school or with their parents. She notes that screen time often exceeds all activities except sleep, and that even modest effects of screen exposure become significant when magnified across the large amount of time children are engaged with devices, particularly affecting sleep and overall well‑being.

I started researching it, kids spend a quarter to a third of their waking life in front of a screen. That's more time than they spend in school. That's more time than they spend with their parents. You know, the only thing they do more than spend on screens, and that's not always the case, is sleeping, you know, because it affects sleeping too now. Even if screen time had a small effect on children, magnified over all these hours, it would turn into something that was important.