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The Puzzling Rise in Nearsighted Children

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Re: The Puzzling Rise in Nearsighted Children

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Kids should be outside playing, not coding. Adults, too.

Coding is playing.

Just kidding, of course. One thing I've noticed is that my kids have vastly more homework than I ever had, and homework now starts in kindergarten. There are only so many waking hours in the day.

Re: The Puzzling Rise in Nearsighted Children

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I have always wondered about this phenomenon. It always just seemed unreasonably coincidental that as soon as we started testing children and could prescribe them glasses, there seemed to be an epidemic. Historical documents never seemed to showcase a perpetual 50%+ nearsightedness epidemic.
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