• cynar@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      The latest studies seem to show it’s a correlation based on a common source.

      What matters is spending time interacting with your child. It just happens that parents that are bad at that bit (or lack time for otter reasons) tend to also dump kids in front of the TV.

      Screen time is not inherently bad. It just correlates with other bad behaviours, and can displace good ones.

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        13 days ago

        And cigarettes aren’t inherently bad, only when you smoke them

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          13 days ago

          Nicotine is a useful pesticide, so I would actually partially agree with you.

          Kids watching excessive TV is a symptom of a larger problem. The negative effects mostly come from those problems, not the screen time itself.