New Report Finds Some Babies Spend Up To Eight Hours a Day on Screens (thetimes.com)
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- Source link: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/babies-and-under-2s-screen-time-6jbdmnjlg
> More than two-thirds of babies under two use screens, a report has found, and [2]some are exposed for up to eight hours a day . Nearly a third of newborns were found to be watching screens for more than three hours a day, while almost 20 percent of infants of four to 11 months used screens for more than an hour a day. The report comes after the government issued guidance that children under two do not use screens at all, apart from communal activities such as video-calling relatives.
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> In a review of the current research, researchers found evidence linking screen time to poorer outcomes for children, including an increased risk of obesity, short-sightedness, sleep and behavioural difficulties, and later challenges with friendships. [...] The research also revealed why children and parents use screens, with families reporting children doing so for educational purposes, entertainment, play and to communicate and bond with others. Parents, meanwhile, used screens to occupy or distract children, which helped caregivers to complete domestic duties, paid employment and other caring responsibilities. Nearly a quarter of parents -- 23.6 percent -- either had no childcare or were not aware of the government's early years offer.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~fjo3
[2] https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/babies-and-under-2s-screen-time-6jbdmnjlg
Tablets in restaurants safe or not? (Score:2)
I have often seen small tablets with edutainment content being used to keep small children quiet in restaurants. Yes, it works and probably I would have loved it or an eink tablet if I was at that age, but yeah you have to wonder what the impact is. Toddlers even want to go right up to a TV to look at the pixels, doesn't mean they should.
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If you're exposed to restaurants enough to an extent that this would develop behavioural difficulties I think you have bigger issues that need to be addressed. Kids will be exposed to screens, it's a question of dose.
Re: Tablets in restaurants safe or not? (Score:2)
Doesn't everyone spend 8 hours in a restaurant with their kids every day, or am I thinking of a special hell?
1960s orphanage survivor (Score:2)
I was born with hip dysplasia and spent six of my first nine months in a half body cast. I was in a state run orphanage, I was growing inside the cast, which left me with terrible scars on the front of my shins, and I was a "fussy" baby, so they "treated" me with phenobarbitol.
The experience left me faceblind and with some other developmental stuff that nicely compliments my otherwise mild autism. I am the squarest of square pegs, a misfit in every situation my whole entire life, except when I am blessedly
Re: 1960s orphanage survivor (Score:2)
Dark patterns and marketing are right up there with child labor in coal mines. At least in terms of the long term disability and social harm it is leading us to
Yeah, you got sunscreens, ultrasound screens... (Score:2)
You name the screen, babies are on it, SMH.
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Babies are everywhere. Even [1]album covers! [wikipedia.org]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevermind
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Some never grow up either. That baby still tries to sue for royalties all the time.
This is unacceptable (Score:2)
I propose fines of $300 for any baby caught using a screen for more than 4 hours.
Higher for repeat offenders and babies over 18 months of age.
When will they LEARN ?
Raising children (Score:1)
But at least you didn't vaccinate and give them autism.