{"id":78697,"date":"2019-02-19T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78697"},"modified":"2019-02-19T18:13:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:13:25","slug":"healthday-screen-time-for-the-very-young-has-doubled-in-20-years-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78697","title":{"rendered":"(Healthday) Screen Time for the Very Young Has Doubled in 20 Years: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electronic babysitter is alive and thriving in the new digital age.<\/p>\n<p>A new study says it all: Children under the age of 2 spend twice the amount of time in front of a screen each day &#8212; almost three hours, to be exact &#8212; as they did 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Kids are being exposed to far more screen time than recommended by pediatric experts, the researchers added.<\/p>\n<p>That screen was most often a TV set, with the television viewing of toddlers rising fivefold between 1997 and 2014, the study findings showed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.healthday.com\/kids-health-information-23\/misc-kid-s-health-news-435\/screen-time-for-the-very-young-has-doubled-in-20-years-study-742896.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Screen Time for the Very Young Has Doubled in 20 Years: Study &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2pVUHB1GXC\">https:\/\/t.co\/2pVUHB1GXC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7s2ZwYzIst\">pic.twitter.com\/7s2ZwYzIst<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Drugnews.in (@drugnewsin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drugnewsin\/status\/1097942339560095744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electronic babysitter is alive and thriving in the new digital age. A new study says it all: Children under the age of 2 spend twice the amount of time in front of a screen each day &#8212; almost three<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78697\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,175,101,168,98,177,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-anthropology","category-children","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78701,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78697\/revisions\/78701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}