Is Too Much Screen Time Harming Children’s Vision?
- Published in Teens-Kids
As children spend more time tethered to screens, there is increasing concern about potential harm to their visual development.
As children spend more time tethered to screens, there is increasing concern about potential harm to their visual development.
It's a familiar sight in the majority of young families: young children bent over a screen for hours, texting or gaming, lost in a digital world.
With their brains, sleep patterns, and eyes still developing, children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to the sleep-disrupting effects of screen time, according to a sweeping review of the literature published recently in the journal Pediatrics.