Screen Time Limits

Young children should be restricted from spending excessive time in front of media screens including; telivisions, personal dvd players, personal computers, tablets, smartphones, and handheld video games. In the United States Of America young chidren are watching too much TV/media screens, this has been linked to depression, obesity, and decreased creativity. Usage should be decreased in young children despite claims of user friendly content for children, and usage being normal and or our new age lifestyle. Telivision and media screen usage should be limited for small children. Children in the U.S. are watching too much telivision. According to the article Screen time limits are vital for children "Between 2011 and 2013 children ages 8 and under more than doubled their use of media devices with screens." Furthermore as stated in paragraph 2 "Children in the united states have an average of 7.5 hours of screen time per day despite long-standing guidelines from the American Academy Of Pediatrics that children over 2 years old should be limited to 1-2 hours per day." Based on the evidence children in the U.S. are watching too Much Telivision. However from the artical "Its time to let go of screeen fears"some will argue that many educational networks have approved …show more content…
Although their is media content designed for children, children are spending too much time watching telivision and the country is facing negative consequences because of it. Paragraph 4 of It's Time To Let Go Of Screen Fears argues: "The AAP says online relationships are important in forming identity for older children." However it is mainly younger children who are watching too much telivision based on mainly parental lazyness not older children so this argument is invalid. Telivision and media screen usage should be limited for small