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Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks

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Post by postexitus »

delbronski wrote: post #26

I’ve noticed a lot of fear mongering with screens and kids. So called “experts” have taken a few correlational studies and concluded that screen time is the devil. Instagram is full of these podcast clips of experts warning parents of the terrible effects of screen time. However, if you actually read any of these papers, they make it quite clear that is impossible to fully separate screen effects from family environm…

I don't think when people say "terror of screen time" they mean 20 minutes of Bluey here and there.

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

> "She actually looked at a motion picture and went, 'I get it! He's going to be the villain and they're going to do this'," he recalled.

Is there something teachable in making a kid sit through the thing even though they instantly understood front to back?

I get it if your goal is learning. Doing the questions in the math book makes the lesson stick. But - when it comes to entertainment - why put a kid through the frustration?

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Post by 47282847 »

jdlyga wrote: post #2

A silver lining to this is new parents are very aware of the dangers of screen time. In my little community, I haven't seen parents of kids under the age of 3 give their kid any type of screen especially when they're out. It's a real generational divide, since I used to see kids with tablets in restaurants everywhere back 5 or 6 years ago. The new thing is screen free electronics, like a device kids can stick cards i…

I see small children in strollers (prams?) with devices in front of them every day on public transport, sometimes as little as a few months old. Breaks my heart.

Not to mention that basically everybody around them disappears into screens on trains/buses. It’s emotional abandonment. We are not here any more.

When I make eye contact, the children light up. But the parents often don’t seem to like random strangers to make contact with their child like that. That I have to avoid or break up contact that the child themselves obviously enjoys, while their caretakers disappear into screens, then breaks my heart a second time.

We have over 100 years of developmental psychology research to know that this is bad. Worse than bad.

Typing this on public transport.

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Post by delbronski »

postexitus wrote: post #31
delbronski wrote: post #26

I’ve noticed a lot of fear mongering with screens and kids. So called “experts” have taken a few correlational studies and concluded that screen time is the devil. Instagram is full of these podcast clips of experts warning parents of the terrible effects of screen time. However, if you actually read any of these papers, they make it quite clear that is impossible to fully separate screen effects from family environm…

I don't think when people say "terror of screen time" they mean 20 minutes of Bluey here and there.

According to a few viral Instagram posts it is.

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Post by zeafoamrun »

delbronski wrote: post #26

I’ve noticed a lot of fear mongering with screens and kids. So called “experts” have taken a few correlational studies and concluded that screen time is the devil. Instagram is full of these podcast clips of experts warning parents of the terrible effects of screen time. However, if you actually read any of these papers, they make it quite clear that is impossible to fully separate screen effects from family environm…

2 hours? you don't know how bad it is out there my friend.

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Post by demaga »

postexitus wrote: post #31
delbronski wrote: post #26

I’ve noticed a lot of fear mongering with screens and kids. So called “experts” have taken a few correlational studies and concluded that screen time is the devil. Instagram is full of these podcast clips of experts warning parents of the terrible effects of screen time. However, if you actually read any of these papers, they make it quite clear that is impossible to fully separate screen effects from family environm…

I don't think when people say "terror of screen time" they mean 20 minutes of Bluey here and there.

Yeah I think even 2 hours is an underestimate these days.

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Post by lnsru »

postexitus wrote: post #31
delbronski wrote: post #26

I’ve noticed a lot of fear mongering with screens and kids. So called “experts” have taken a few correlational studies and concluded that screen time is the devil. Instagram is full of these podcast clips of experts warning parents of the terrible effects of screen time. However, if you actually read any of these papers, they make it quite clear that is impossible to fully separate screen effects from family environm…

I don't think when people say "terror of screen time" they mean 20 minutes of Bluey here and there.

20 minutes of screen time daily is extreme parenting effort. That’s olympic level. I would say the new normal is 20 minutes after each meal.

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Post by gambiting »

jansan wrote: post #19
adrianN wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I‘d wager that the correlation is with how exhausting the parent‘s job is. Screens are excellent for keeping children occupied, keeping them happy in healthier ways requires a lot of energy. After working a hard job, running a household and worrying about whether you run out of money before the next paycheck I can imagine that many parents just don’t have the mental resources.

If that was true you would see unemployed parents being best at keeping their children from the screens. It is awareness, i am pretty sure about this.

I don't know what you think unemployment looks like, but for most people it's incredibly stressful and not a time when you can just sit on your ass and watch TV all day. The benefits, if you manage to secure them - are barely enough to get by.

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Post by darkwater »

delbronski wrote: post #26

I’ve noticed a lot of fear mongering with screens and kids. So called “experts” have taken a few correlational studies and concluded that screen time is the devil. Instagram is full of these podcast clips of experts warning parents of the terrible effects of screen time. However, if you actually read any of these papers, they make it quite clear that is impossible to fully separate screen effects from family environm…

Obviously, it is common sense.

But here is the thing: lots of parents (or people in general) are not able to use common sense and they need to be told absolute statements, because they will break them anyway, just like speed limits. So if you told them "absolutely 0 screen time" they will give them anyway some here and there screen time - which is fine. If the "expert" writing books, speaking on podcast or showing up in reels tells you "ah it's fine, here and there is fine, just use common sense" you will have an army of parents thinking that 2 hours YT for a toddler is "here and there" because "hey, it's not 6 hours a day like my neighbor!"

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Post by Markoff »

delbronski wrote: post #26

I’ve noticed a lot of fear mongering with screens and kids. So called “experts” have taken a few correlational studies and concluded that screen time is the devil. Instagram is full of these podcast clips of experts warning parents of the terrible effects of screen time. However, if you actually read any of these papers, they make it quite clear that is impossible to fully separate screen effects from family environm…

better be safe than sorry

I don't think screen free kids won't miss anything by not watching Bluey for 20 mins, OTOH not so great parents will keep pushing those 20 mins further and further with worse and worse content, so I guess it's just easier to say any screen time is bad since the border between reasonable/good screen time and bad screen time is very small.

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