A few weeks ago I stumbled across an article about medical experts in France who were calling to review screen time guidelines for children. While it had previously been recommended that screens be avoided before the age of three, they were now suggesting that this should be revised to six. Oh balls, I thought as I glanced at my three-year-old daughter engrossed in a deranged ASMR slime video.
It was quite alarming. Various paediatric, public health, and psychiatric societies had penned an urgent letter to the government. They stated that: “Screens in whatever form do not meet children’s needs. Worse, they hinder and alter brain development,” even going so far as to state that they cause “a lasting alteration to their health and their intellectual capacities.”
