Screen Time
How Electronic Media—From Baby Videos to Educational Software—Affects Your Young Child
Editorial Review
This book is mainly about of television and media's time and content on children. The studies on how children respond to content led us to ask: what exactly are our children watching? Can they make sense of it? Will they try to imitate what happens on screen? Could they learn from it? Are they learning what we think they are learning?
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Screen time’s impact on social skills could be both good and bad, depending on what, and how much, our kids are watching.
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A set of national data from the 1990s showed that children aged 1½ watched more than two hours of TV a day.
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