Screen time is slowing children’s neurological and social development
Martha RosenbergThe Epoch TimesForty years ago when television was king, women used to joke about setting the table with the remote control placed next to the fork, so addicted were people to TV. Flash forward to today’s screen culture, and you find many children spend more time on screens than they do sleeping or with a full- or part-time job.Increased screen learning in schools and COVID-19 shutdowns have added to the mix of video games, smartphones, laptops, and tablets that have all but captured today’s children.But is all that screen-watching just a harmless waste of time? No. According to scientific studies, it’s producing actual negative changes in our children’s brain development. Research published in the International Journal of Sociology of the Family in