There are legitimate broader questions about how American children spend their time, but all you can do is keep them in mind as you decide what rules to set down for your own child. The statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics assumes a zero-sum game: an hour spent watching TV is an hour not spent with a parent. But parents know this is not how life works. There are enough hours in a day to go to school, play a game, and spend time with a parent, and generally these are different hours. Some people can get so drawn into screens that they want to do nothing else but play games. Experts say excessive video gaming is a real problem, but they debate whether it can be called an addiction and, if so, whether the term can be used for anything but a small portion of the population. If your child shows signs of having an addictive personality, you will probably know it. One of my kids is like that; I set stricter limits for him than for the others, and he seems to understand why.
In her excellent book Screen Time, the journalist Lisa Guernsey lays out a useful frameworkwhat she calls the three Csfor thinking about media consumption: content, context, and your child. She poses a series of questionsDo you think the content is appropriate? Is screen time a relatively small part of your childs interaction with you and the real world?and suggests tailoring your rules to the answers, child by child. One of the most interesting points Guernsey makes is about the importance of parents attitudes toward media. If they treat screen time like junk food, or like a magazine at the hair salongood for passing the time in a frivolous way but nothing morethen the child will fully absorb that attitude, and the neurosis will be passed to the next generation.
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