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>The minister said the ban was also a “public health message to families”, adding: “It’s good that children are not too often, or even at all, in front of a scr
by icelancer 9y ago
>The minister said the ban was also a “public health message to families”, adding: “It’s good that children are not too often, or even at all, in front of a screen before the age of seven.”
Citation-fucking-required for this one, with conclusive evidence proving that it's true for all kids under seven. AKA he pulled it out of his ass.
- hycaria 9y agoWhy do you seem so angry about this ?
- aluhut 9y agoThere is a frightening amount of people having huge problems with the rule on here. I'd guess they are quite young and grew up in this unregulated time, not even knowing what they've missed.
- rekado 9y agoHere's an opinionated overview: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mental-wealth/201402/gray-matters-too-much-screen-time-damages-the-brain https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mental-wealth/201402/gr... It is not even an unreasonable assumption that things that are fine for adults may not be harmless for developing brains. But it seems that---as usual---this topic is poorly understood as there may be confounding factors that are not controlled for. A counterpoint is given here: https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/29/screen-time-mental-health-children https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2013/aug/2...