Screen Time Benefits

After reading the online article “10 Great Things Teens Learn While “Playing” Online” by Christy Matte and the magazine article “ Teens and the Internet: How Much is Too Much? “ by Stephanie Newman , it is clear that teens should be limited to the amount of time used online daily. The use of the internet may be beneficial; it all depends on how the student uses it. Teens should not be able to use a significant about of time online because it affects their social isolation, physical and also mental health.

Screen time is necessary for relaxation because it can calm the teen down from stress at school due to too much homework and not enough time to complete it in. It can also help relax the teen so that

One reason why a limit for screen time is not a good idea, is because for educational reasons. Children can develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills by playing computer games designed to develop these skills. Also, joining online clubs can help children practice using social media safely. This is for internet safety reasons as well

Did you know that the average teenager spends nine hours a day on their devices, and kids from ages 8 to 12 spend 6 hours a day staring at a screen. That is way too much time spent on cell phones, computers,etc. A recent study by the Researchers at the University of Gothenburg found that a person who is constantly on their computer or mobile device can develop stress, sleeping disorders, and depression, staring at a screen for too long can stain your eyes.If that is not enough you can get carpel tunnel syndrome which affects your hands, and you can also develop epilepsy, also called seizure disorder. This is why I believe that screen time should be limited to the recommended 2 hours or less.

Technology has been part of our daily live more frequently than before. Screen time has been more popularly used on kids and adolescents. On a daily bases many kids seem to spend more time inside on their tablets, instead of having to spend time with other kids. This is a problem that is becoming more popular over the years,on whether kids need to spend that much time on technology or not. Parents either seem to have strict technology usage, or they either don’t. There has always been a huge controversy with experts, who either think that screen time is beneficial or could cause problems later on in life. There are many views towards this topic, from hurting kids brains, to helping them during school, and socially.

The following proposal addresses the research question: What is the relationship between screen time and learning development in school aged children and youth? Studying various social

Screen time can help younger children in many different ways, such as socially, with math, and with reading. Screen time can help younger children learn how to read and do math through shows and apps like Sesame Street, Play School, and Teach Your Monster to Read. Screen time can also help younger children by helping them socially by showing kids how to act in TV shows like Sesame Street so that they will replicate it in real life.

Take a moment to imagine a world without the technological advances from the last ten to fifteen years. Imagine a world without wifi, without smartphones, without chromebooks, and without concerns about screen time. Now, envision a world with all the developments in the last fifteen years. Think about how technology has allowed for stronger social interactions, personalized physical fitness programs, and more engaging lessons at school. What if your parents limited your screen time? By limiting screen time, you might be less social, overweight, and not achieving your potential. For this reason, teens and tweens should be allowed to have unlimited screen time, because it provides education, encourages fitness, and strengthens social interactions.

One thing that screen time can cause is harmful things to your body.One thing is that when you spend a hour of screen time your eyes become very dry. Another thing is that studies say that screen time can change the function of the brain.Also your kids might become very violent because of some of their harming games that have guns and people killing people.

Many studies explain the negative impact that extended "screen time" has on children, such as the light from screens distrupting sleep, little mental energy, and depression from viewing before bed. The fact that children spend an average of 7.5 hours of their day staring at a screen, at school, at home, just sitting is not healthy. Many people will argue that most of what they are watching, doing while on their devices is "educational" is not true, I see children every day and they are not doing anything even remotely good for their brains; they sit around playing video games, scrolling social media, watching tv shows and movies that have no teaching points.

Critics today believe too much screen time takes a huge tole on todays children. In the passage "Screen Time Limits Are Vital for Children", they state, Children in the United States have an average of 7.5 hours of screen per day. this is despite long-standing guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics that children older than 2 years should be limited to 1-2 hours per day and even younger have no screen at all.

Another example of what too much screen time can negatively effect, is found in brain development. Between the birth of a child and age 3, the child's brain is particularly sensitive to the environment around it; this is called the critical period. In order for the child's neural networks in brain to develop correctly during the critical period, the child needs specific stimuli from the right environment. When a child spends too much time looking at displays, he/her is not getting the crucial stimuli needed from the real world, which results in his/her development being stunted. This stunt is not just temporary either. If the damage occurs during the critical

Many parents are under the impression that technology is essential for a child's development, and their not wrong but the excessive amount of screentime is doing more harm than good. Parents need to limit their children's use of screen time. The unlimited time spent using screens is affecting many areas of a child’s life, however the areas to be of most concern are physical and mental health.

What is an acceptable amount of screen time? The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that children over two years of age and adolescents have less than two hours of screen time a day (Houghton, et al., p. 1). However, that recommendation was originally made in 1999 and only considered screen time that was used for entertainment. Since so much screen time these days is now spent for educational and social media purposes, two hours may no longer be practical (Houghton, et al., p. 9). Screen time activities for academic, social, education purposes are “seamlessly integrated” into children’s daily routine (Houghton, et al., p. 2). Cell phone apps make it easy to log on anytime with the push of a button. It is not surprising a recent study showed that 45% of eight year olds and 80% of 16 year olds exceeded the recommended two hours of daily screen time.

As according to a study done by the Kaiser Family Foundation, “8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes...to using entertainment media across a typical day”. Not only that, but most youths also report to having no rules governing the amount of time spent on entertainment media in the mediums of TV, videogames, and any computer use. Less than 50% actually have rules and regulations on what video games they are allowed to play and what TV shows they can watch. However, I believe that daily media use among children and teens needs to be controlled. If it is not, this could potentially lead to negative ramifications, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, obesity, internet addiction, and negative effects on the brain.