The good news is that the Pediatricians has finally updated their recommendations on how much time kids should spend on digital screens to reflect the new role that digital devices play in family lives. The bad news is what its new guidelines states, it depends on : Whether you participate in screen-watching with your kids. How much you can monitor them? Whether you’re on a plane or your kid is sick. Whether you can make sure they only watch high-quality content and if your kid is more independent or more obedient by nature.
In short, the bad news is that the new guidelines means parents have yet more work to do. After all, screens are one of the biggest bugbears of modern parenting. They’re almost unavoidable, they’re something our parents didn’t have to deal with in quite the same way and nobody yet has good data on how much screen-watching is injurious. All of that makes parents…
