The Bad News About Screen Time: A Father-Son Talk

My son again asked me to share what I told him about the negative consequences of too much screen time on the development of a youth's brain. We have talked about this many times over the years, but he only now seems to be able to understand.

For the record, a lot of research has come out over the past 3 decades that links too much screen time (TV shows, movies, video games, etc.) with learning disabilities like ADD and ADHD. If you are using a device to pacify your child, especially if you're not monitoring and limiting it, you are hurting your child. From birth to around the age of 25, the brain is developing and the younger a child is, the more susceptible to unwanted changes caused by screen time they are.

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