Screen Time for Kids: In todays life of kids, screens have become a common part of everyday activities. Even in schools everyone is starting digital classes with screens and providing tablets to read their lessons. Especially, from Covid -19 pandemic online learning became very common with no age restrictions and even screen time affects infants in their brain development.
But is screen time good for your child’s age? Even though it is educational, too much use may lead to problems. Here in this article, we are going to provide you with some tips and tricks to reduce screen time for kids, problems that your kid face due to screen time, and many more are discussed!!!
- Negative Effect of Screen Time on Your Child’s Ability to Learn
- Problems That Your Kids Face with Too Much Screen Time
- Tips to Reduce Screen Time for Your Kids
- Benefits of Screen time for Kids
- How addictive can screen time be for young kids?
- Why should we limit children’s screen time?
- How much screen time is Ok for kids?
- How much screen time is healthy?
Negative Effect of Screen Time on Your Child’s Ability to Learn
If your child is below 2 years they learn from humans rather than learning from videos, so screen time is not good at that age and it may affect your child’s brain development. To absorb screens about what they are seeing only from the age of 2. Even though they cannot understand 100 percent.
Many researchers say that the child’s language development starts between 1 and half to 3 years of age. And they can easily learn only from adults not from videos and by showing them videos for long time to keep them calm, that will become addiction to them which you cannot able to control and leads severe problems and also affects their academic performances and their future.
Problems That Your Kids Face with Too Much Screen Time
With the increased advancement of technology, children are spending a lot of time looking at TV and playing video games on TV, smartphone, or tablets. Always need to keep in mind that unstructured playtime is more important for a young child’s brain and vision development than digital.
Look into some of the problems that your kids face with too much screen time.
- Impaired Academic Performance
- Obesity
- Insufficient Sleep
- Less time in Learning Creatively
- Not Enough Physical Activity
- Reading Fewer Books
- Mood Problems
- Fear
- Less Time For Family and Friends
Not only problems, over screen time may expose your children to
- Cyberbullies
- Negative Stereotypes
- Sexual Content
- Misleading or Inaccurate information
- Videos of stunts or challenges
So, when you provide screen time to your children, just give them mobiles or tablets under your supervision to not get exposed to such types of things. Even over usage of phones and TV may impact your Child’s Vision and it may lead to low academic Performance.
Tips to Reduce Screen Time for Your Kids
Here we are going to show you some tips to reduce your child’s screen time, that keep them healthy and creative. Even though it is difficult but it’s worthy.
- If your kids are spending too much time on screens, start by reducing their screen to half. Dont directly cut the screen time.
- Always use parental controls on your smartphone to keep an eye on what they are using.
- Turn off all the screens when you are on family meals and outings.
- After coming from school, spend time with your kids face to face by giving them your full attention.
- Until 18 months do not give them screen time except for video chatting to talk with the people that are not available in town.
- Keep the screens out of your childs bedroom.
- After 18-24 months provide screen time with the limited time to watch educational programming under the supervision of a caregiver.
- For children 2-5 years, limit their screen time to 1 hour per day as it may affect your child’s brain development.
- For ages 6 and older, do not provide any screen time as they already have screen time at schools. Spend time with them and help them with physical games.
Benefits of Screen time for Kids
As we are saying that screen time should be for one hour per day and two hours per day, even though screen time is not meant for playing games, parents should supervise their children and help them to be creative.
Following are some of the benefits of screen time, if your kid uses screen time wisely.
- It improves socialization.
- Helps with the development of fine motor skills
- They will be creative and gets problem solving skills.
- Enhances critical thinking.
- Helps to promote social readiness.
FAQs on Screen Time and Child Development
- How addictive can screen time be for young kids?
When you provide screen time to your kids, they become very addicted as they do not know the consequences or drawbacks of using mobile or TV. So always keep them away from the screen or distract them.
- Why should we limit children’s screen time?
We should limit children’s screen time because screens should not replace parental and human interaction with a child.
- How much screen time is Ok for kids?
Below we have provided you with the children’s screen time according to their age.
- 0-2 years: Don’t provide any screen time except for video chatting.
- 2 – 5 years: Don’t provide screen time for not more than an hour and only under the supervision of parents.
- 5 – 17 years: Don’t provide more than 2 hours and that is also only for homework.
- How much screen time is healthy?
Less than two hours per day is the best and healthy screen time.
Key Outcomes
Hope that the information we have provided above on screen time for kids is beneficial for you. If your are addicted to screens then this article will help you to reduce their screen time with some tips.
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