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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Jessie Hewitson

My kids spend 10-12 hours online a day: screen time isn’t always a bad thing

For some neurodivergent children, screentime is an essential way to relax (photo posed by model) - (Pexels)

When I was growing up we had four television channels, a girl playing noughts and crosses with a creepy doll to let you know there were no more programmes that day and Ceefax. The latter was a test of ultimate patience as the pages took at least three years to load.

Times have changed. My two sons can’t cope if the internet speed goes down by one bar when gaming online. “Muuuuuuum, it’s buffering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

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