How Does Screen Time Affect Teens

Less Screen Time Creates a Better Teen
Too much screen time is having a negative effect on teens daily lives. Teens are becoming obese. Parents should limit teen’s screen time because it is affecting teen’s health, teen’s grades, and teen’s behavior in the real world. Parents should limit screen time for their teens because it is affecting their weight. Sitting down watching tv, social media, or playing video games is making teens gain weight. Think about it when most teens are on their phone or in front of a TV they get so bored so they grab a snack and continue to eat it. Especially when watching TV and a food commercial comes on it tends to make you feel more hungry and tempt you to get something to snack one. “Teen’s who spent the most time in front of a screen had the biggest increase in body fat overtime.” ( Parenthetical webmd ). This is shown that all the time on a screen is not helping teens physically. Since teens are spending hours and hours sitting around they are not getting enough physical activity throughout the normal day. Instead of …show more content…
Since it is so easy to just text someone or play video games with someone over the television and not actually interact with someone face-to-face, teens are becoming less social outside of screens. “Some child development experts report that children who spend excessive time in front of screens are not developing the social skills they need to effectively handle interpersonal relationships.” (http://www.scilearn.com/blog/social-skills-digital-age-screen-time). Whenever teens text someone or someone likes their post they are automatically getting a response back. Whereas in real life that is not always the case. Also teens are cyber bullying because it is so easy to say rude comments to someone over the screen where you can not see their reaction or how they would respond if it was a face-to-face