{"id":15396,"date":"2019-11-14T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T16:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=286934"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:52","slug":"a-new-study-suggests-screen-time-might-not-be-the-worst-thing-for-kids-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/a-new-study-suggests-screen-time-might-not-be-the-worst-thing-for-kids-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Study Suggests Screen Time Might Not Be The Worst Thing For Kids After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Being a parent in the modern day is a constant juggling act. Screen time is one of the biggest issues in parenting.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">As everything becomes digitized, how much screen time is too much? How do you handle that when some of that screen time is for schoolwork? <em>The Doctors<\/em> decided to tackle the controversial subject and set us straight.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">During the segment, a new study by the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaacap.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry<\/a><\/em> was referenced. The study, which collected data from over 35,000 American children and their caregivers, suggests that screen time may not be the worst thing for your kids when it comes to psychosocial functioning.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">The study claims that kids who spend one to two hours watching screens have better levels of psychosocial well-being.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Dr. Judy Ho, however, disagreed with a resounding \u201cNO!\u201d<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">She explained that further investigation of the study showed that parents chose whether they wanted to participate, and they self-reported data, which means it isn\u2019t the most reliable. The questionnaires that caregivers filled out for the study featured generic questions, such as \u201cDoes your child worry?\u201d When you consider all the different issues today\u2019s kids are facing, a study like this one can\u2019t accurately reflect every impact of screen time.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286947\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-screen-time-kids\/\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"627\" class=\"size-full wp-image-286947 lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/screen-time-kids.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/screen-time-kids.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/screen-time-kids-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/screen-time-kids-600x314.jpg 600w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/screen-time-kids-768x401.jpg 768w, https:\/\/d1dd4ethwnlwo2.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/screen-time-kids-1000x523.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width:1600px) 992px, (min-width:1200px) 768px, (min-width:518px) 480px, (min-width:325px) 320px, 300px\"\/><\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Photo: LittleThings<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Dr. Judy went on to discuss more robust studies that say children who have two hours of screen time a day perform worse on thought and memory tasks.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Dr. Judy also acknowledged that maintaining zero screen time is impossible. She recommends joint media attention, where parents spend the time watching quality content with their children. She also recommends gauging screen time by age, saying one to two hours is OK for school-aged children.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">She continued to note that certain areas of the home, such as the dinner table, should be deemed screen-free zones.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\">Watch this segment to learn more.<\/span><span itemprop=\"articleBody\"><span class=\"empty\">Proper BCS greatergood_ctg_abovevideo<\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com\/lt-screen-time-kids\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a parent in the modern day is a constant juggling act. Screen time is one of the biggest issues in parenting.As everything becomes digitized, how much screen time is too much? How do you handle that when some of that screen time is for schoolwork? The Doctors decided to tackle the controversial subject and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45715,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15396\/revisions\/45715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}