Media and Tech
Screen time has a high cost that we usually avoid acknowledging. Research shows that people who don't watch TV are happier and healthier, have better self-esteem and a healthier body image, and are less fearful. Families who watch less TV are closer, and kids who see less TV become sexually active at a later age.
When children and teens watch more than one hour of screen time on a daily basis, they are more likely to demonstrate lower psychological well-being, including lower self-control, more distractibility, more difficulty making friends, less emotional stability, being more challenging to care for, inability to finish tasks, and less curiosity. (See this study: Twenge J.M., Campbell W.K. (2018))
Limiting kids' screen use is simple protective parenting.
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