Given their past statements on screen time I’m curious why the AAP is silent on schools pushing kids are sitting on screens all the time now.
Putting kids on screens all day every day is bad for them. We know this. And yet, I see nobody stating the obvious.
If I had gone to my pediatrician six months ago and told him that my kids were spending six hours a day on screens (but it was educational!) I would have justifiably been read the riot act about the very mixed data on children learning from screens and how detrimental they are.
So where are the experts on the dangers of screens? Why aren’t they advocating for other models at home learning? Instead of sticking kids on a screen all day, school districts could have sent home seat work and offered parents regular check-ins.
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