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> I don't think a lot of people dispute that more screen time is harmful. I dispute it. Me and my friends played video games a lot, watched a lot of tv, etc. W

> I don't think a lot of people dispute that more screen time is harmful. I dispute it. Me and my friends played video games a lot, watched a lot of tv, etc. We all turned out fine. I think most people did the exact same thing and turned out fine too. Screen time = harm is an idea that flies in the face of the common reality lived by everyone born since 1980. This idea sounds a lot like people who thought novels were dangerous, that comic books were dangerous, that rock and roll was dangerous, etc.

thenerdhead 4y ago
Do you still do those things a lot? Do you have a hard time quitting them? Turning out fine is not the problem here. It's the addiction that is formed creating habits that are extremely difficult to give up. This only gets worse each generation due to even more time in front of screens. Kids from the 80s spent more time outside than those from the 90s and so on. https://www.childinthecity.org/2018/01/15/children-spend-half-the-time-playing-outside-in-comparison-to-their-parents https://www.childinthecity.org/2018/01/15/children-spend-hal...