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Screen time for kids: the latest recommendations

By Emily On April 1, 2014 · Add Comment

In the last few weeks there have been some widely conflicting reports about how much screen time – and what kind of screen time – is appropriate for young children. There seems to be several schools of thought on the matter, including a growing movement to ban all handheld devices for children under the age of 12. For parents like me who don’t limit screen time on handheld devices, this would be the equivalent of going cold turkey for my kids. Bottom line: it just ain’t happenin’. We do, however, limit the amount of television we watch. My husband and I have decided that while the handheld devices we own offer interactive learning (depending on the app) and can teach our two young children a range of skills that supplement their school learning, TV is just there. In our opinion it just spits out noise and pictures, however “educational” the [...]

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