Children and screens: how to keep the balance?
The excessive use of screens in childhood is trivialized, seen as an opportunity for peace of mind for the parents, and others consider it a high risk to the health of the little ones. The truth is that finding an adequate daily balance is the real challenge. A study made by a kid tech platform, SuperAwesome, found out that children aged 6 to 12 in the US are spending at least 50% of their daily time fiddling with screens during the quarantine. What can we do? It is not recommended to cut off the devices from the routine entirely, but…
Childhood and electronic devices, what is the limit?
Your child spends hours on a cellphone, tablet, or playing video games every day. But is that healthy for them? According to the American Heart Association (AHA), the recommendation is for children to have free time for healthier activities, especially outdoors. The AHA suggests that children and teenagers from 8 to 18 should use electronic devices for no more than two hours a day, and the ones aged 2 to 5 for only one hour daily. And all this for many reasons: the children’s health being the main one. In 2016, the American Academy of Pediatrics conducted a study that…