The effects of screen time on children are hard to measure. Here's how scientists are trying to make it easier.Credit: Shutterstock / fizkes Welcome toSmall Humans, an ongoing series at Mashable that looks at how to take care of – and deal with – the kids in your life. Because Dr....
"We're sort of in the midst of a natural kind of uncontrolled experiment on the next generation of children." Dr. Gaya Dowling: What we can say is that this is what the brains look like of kids who spend a lot of time on screens. And it's not just one ...
Internet addiction can also have physical effects. Screen time has been shown to decrease sleep quality, and internet addicts may stay up late on their devices. Sleep disruptions like this have health consequences and also hinder the development of children and teens’ growing brains. Excessive devi...
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Ten states have launched a joint investigation into whether Meta — formerly Facebook— broke consumer protection laws by trying to attract kids to its platforms, prosecutors announced on Thursday. The bipartisan group involves attorneys general from California, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska...
“On the first night they had the children playing call of duty black ops. On the second night a week later they spent an equal amount of time watching March of the Penguins, the award-winning French documentary which follows the yearly journey of the emperor penguins of Antarctica across ...
Now, kids as young as ten are getting their first mobile phones and finding it all too easy to log onto 18+ sites. It wasn't always this way, for the ownership of a mobile phone once denoted a sense of responsibility. It represented a key step in coming of age and granted independenc...
Participants were told: “This study is about what kids like to do in their spare time, such as watching movies, and playing with toys and games.” Before viewing the movie, participants completed a 9-item measure of how often they engaged in aggressive behaviors such as yelling, arguing, ...
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13 A displacement framework has also been applied to examining the effects of screen time on academic activities such as studying, reading, and doing homework.14The content of media can have effects independent of the amount of screen time. Greater screen time increases children’s exposure to ...