Balancing Screen Time
8/4/2023 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Managing kids' screen time helps ensure a healthy, balanced lifestyle.
With today's digital media and technology, kids spend more time looking at screens than ever before. Managing screen time is essential to help children maintain a healthy balance between technology and other activities.
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Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.
Balancing Screen Time
8/4/2023 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
With today's digital media and technology, kids spend more time looking at screens than ever before. Managing screen time is essential to help children maintain a healthy balance between technology and other activities.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(playful music) (kids chattering) - [Woman] Screen time and digital technology use can be a part of a healthy lifestyle when balanced with other activities.
Aim to use screens in a way that feels healthy and useful.
Setting classroom or home goals for screen time creates a healthy balance of physical and digital play.
- So whenever this timer goes all the way down, you know when to get off, okay.
So we can have another friend to go on.
- [Woman] Cutting back on screen time also reduces children's reliance on constant stimulation.
Short screen time sessions create media balance.
(playful music) (kids chattering) With digital media and technology, kids are on screens more than ever.
It is important that they have a healthy and meaningful screen time environment.
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Learning to Read is a local public television program presented by WNPT
Funding for LEARNING TO READ is provided by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation and the Hays Foundation.