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Excessive Screen Time in Young Children is Associated with Developmental Delay
According to researchers, limiting children’s time with electronic devices is no easy task, but it can be done.
Giving a child access to electronic devices may be the easiest way to keep them calm, but is giving over a tablet or a phone harming a long-term child?
You see, there’s nothing wrong with playing a video game or watching a cartoon occasionally, but a new study shows that excessive screen time can affect a child’s long-term development.
The 21st-century child grows up with unprecedented and unrestricted access to all kinds of gadgets.
Beginning at toddler age, most kids spend a more significant part of their day staring at a screen rather than engaging in physical activity or interacting with their peers.
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found that excessive screen time impeded development in children. The study looked at 2,400 Canadian children. The study found that children between the ages of 2 to 3 with more significant amounts of screen time had significantly poorer performance when their development was assessed at ages 3 to 5.
A population-based cross-sectional study in India found a similar result. The researchers…
