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How kids’ screen-time guidelines came about——and how to enforce them
As most parents know by now, the experts say we should limit our kids’ screen time or risk raising socially stunted couch potatoes. Last fall, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released updated guidelines for children and adolescents using media, mending no more than two hours per day of any type of entertainment screen time for kids ages 3 to 18 and none for children 2 or younger. The guidelines cover media such as and texting as well as TV, movies and video games.
As a science writer, I wondered how the AAP decided on that limit, which seems arbitrary and simplistic. As a mother raising a 3-year-old and a 6-year-old in a house full of glowing screens, I wondered, how would I ever enforce it?
Victor Strasburger, a professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and an AAP spokesman, explained that the two-hour es from several large studies that have followed the television-watching habits and health of children over decades.
“Over two hours per day, and the more time spent in front of a screen, the higher the risk of obesity,” he said.
With more than two hours of screen time per day, kids are also more likely to experience a drop in school performance and increased aggression, Strasburger said. “There is a displacement effect. If you are