Research has found that two hours a day appears to be the upper limit of healthy recreational screen time for children, beyond which they start to report only negative effects.
How much screen time is too much for children? New research that set out to put a hard number on the amount of recreational screen time that is healthy for children found that two hours a day appears to be the upper limit for any screen use.
They found that beyond two hours of recreational screen time, children experienced “serious physical and mental health consequences”. The researchers split screen time into “passive” use, such as TV or watching videos on a tablet, and “active” use such as playing games on a gaming console or surfing the internet on a computer.
The research findings are the latest in an increasingly long line of findings indicating excessive screen time has various harmful effects on children.
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