Stop shaming kids for screen time and video games. Related: video games have positive mental health benefits.[2] As a parent, nothing seems to create more iss

Stop shaming kids for screen time and video games. Related: video games have positive mental health benefits.[2] As a parent, nothing seems to create more issues than screen time. Ive seen other parents get fairly harsh with extreme limits with their kids screen time consumption. It’s like abstinence education for sex: it just doesn’t work and ultimately backfires. Indeed research has shown kids have to get pretty extreme in their screentime usage for it to be harmful [1] Better to let kids have screen time and teach them safe ways to use it and work with them to moderate their usage. It just so happens this is what treatment for “video game addiction” does - teaches moderation of the activity not abstinence. 1 - https://thenextweb.com/news/screen-time-doesnt-harm-kids-but-you-should-still-keep-an-eye-on-it-syndication https://thenextweb.com/news/screen-time-doesnt-harm-kids-but... 2. - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00260/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.0026...