"A typical 8-year-old in the UK now spends almost three hours a day online, and by age two, around 4 in 10 children already have their own tablet. At the same time, children's enjoyment of reading is at a record low in UK surveys. The issue has gained new urgency after Australia announced a world-first ban on social media for under-16s, according to BBC. Research links higher daily screen time with increased cardiometabolic risk in children and teens, especially when sleep is short."
"For Dr. Ryan Stevenson, Co-founder & Director at Bright Heart Education, a special educational needs tutoring company, the issue isn't simply "too many minutes" on screens, it's what those minutes replace. "With most families I work with, the problem isn't that a tablet exists," he says. "It's that screens quietly eat into sleep, daylight, reading, or proper down-time." Instead of chasing a perfect number of minutes, Dr. Stevenson suggests three quick checks: What is screen time displacing?"
Children increasingly spend hours daily online; by age two about 40% already have tablets and eight-year-olds average nearly three hours per day. Children's enjoyment of reading is at record lows and some governments have responded with age-based social media restrictions. Higher daily screen time associates with increased cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents, especially when sleep is short. Screens can help regulation for children with autism or ADHD but cannot be the sole coping mechanism. Loot boxes and randomized rewards introduce gambling-like risk patterns well before legal gambling age. Practical parental checks focus on what screen time displaces, sleep quality, and the digital design children encounter.
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