what about Screen Time is bad for kids? Is it the sitting around for long periods of time, the content they watch or just staring at a pixelated screen?
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It’s the fact that the time that they spend in front of a TV is not spent doing something else.
If screen time is quality time, then it’s quality time (educational videos, homeworks, video lectures, video chat with friends, some games that require creativity/team work/intelligence).
But very often a screen can consume three hours of their afternoon with no purpose. If the screen was off, the kids would have had to be creative, find things to do, etc.
And in any case screen time does not help to develop fine and gross motor skills.
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