Saturday, October 03, 2015

How much time should kids spend with screens? New advice for a digital age

The L.A. Times reports:
The American Academy of Pediatrics is catching up with the times.

Back in 2011, it issued a policy called "Media Use By Children Younger Than 2 Years," which recommended no more than two hours of screen time a day for kids older than 2, and discouraged any time at all in front of a screen for toddlers younger than that. It reaffirmed those guidelines in 2013.
Reaffirmation.