High amounts of screen time begin as early as infancy

Saturday, November 30, 2019 - 12:23 in Health & Medicine

Children's average daily time spent watching television or using a computer or mobile device increased from 53 minutes at age 12 months to more than 150 minutes at 3 years, according to a recent analysis. By age 8, children were more likely to log the highest amount of screen time if they had been in home-based childcare or were born to first-time mothers.

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