Screen-Free Week: Tips for Cutting Back on Screentime
This week is Screen-Free Week – an opportunity for families to cut back on their screen time on TV and computers. Metro Parent magazine offers these tips.
Experts have been cautioning parents for decades to limit the time children spend in front of a screen. Yet here we are, in the middle of Screen-Free Week (April 30-May 6), and screentime is higher than ever. Children ages 6 to 11 watch an average of 28 hours a week of TV, according to a Metro Parent Magazine special report, "The Great Screen Debate." And according to a 2009 study by The Nielsen Company, children ages 2-5 are consuming an average of more than 32 hours weekly "boob tube" time. Every year since 1996, Screen-Free Week – organized by The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood – helps families cut back on the amount of time they spend in front of the various screens that captivate us. Here are three tips from metroparent.com…
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4:45 pm on Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Unrelated to the article I suppose, but am I the only one who finds the child used as the picture somewhat eerie with his pale face and ridiculously red cheeks? more ›