Do you think over exposure to Screen time for children is impacting the Uk education standards?
Posted by WearingMarcus@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 86 comments
If so, why do results keep improving? Are the exams being dumbed down? Or are they not improving and children now coming through have lower levels of literacy etc.
Be interesting to hear from teachers, any anecdotal experiences.
Or is screen time getting a bad rep, can it be used in a positive way?
RayaQueen@reddit
Listen to 'how reading made us' on BBC sounds. Lots of info in there. Maybe not the whole answer you want but very interesting. And definitely yes it's changing our brains.
katspike@reddit
Yes, def worth listening to ‘[how reading made us](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002sdyn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile)
maisydee@reddit
Why do results keep improving? They just use Google …
terryjuicelawson@reddit
They have got prep for exams down to a fine art. In my day it was learn and revise all the curriculum but for actual practice it was maybe a few photocopied past papers to look through. Getting the most marks from your knowledge is a skill in itself. And knowing what to actually focus on.
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
or Ai I guess.
You set me a project on say Henry the 8th, take a Ai pic and it probably writes you a semi decent summary of his life.
terryjuicelawson@reddit
All kids did in the past was regurgitate some stuff from a history book anyway, I don't think they tend to do this sort of traditional project any more. I feel like (our school anyway) does a lot more to get kids to actually understand a topic rather than the rote learning of my childhood.
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
That is good news.
Perhaps we are doom mongering regrading screen time?
countingmystepsbaby@reddit
But that doesn't replicate exam conditions (pencil, paper, no phones, close supervision) so wouldn't explain good results.
atomic_mermaid@reddit
What, in the exam room?
RogeredSterling@reddit
I don't think it's screen time per se. I was glued to broadcast TV and VHS as a kid. And then PC.
I think the problem lies in infinite scrolling and swiping. Web pages had an end point. Broadcast TV had an end point. Even Facebook when it started had an end point.
The problem is with infinite content that scrolls and loops. Very little of which is of the same standard as traditional broadcast TV and film, that you could also only watch at specific times. Yes, VHS and then DVD you could watch again and when you want but it was a mindful, selective experience due to cost.
There is nothing positive about an infinite feed and I include Reddit in this.
Falloffingolfin@reddit
I used to work for an organisation that developed research and provided therapeutic services for screen time harm, so know a bit about it.
TV isn't inherently bad but needs managing when very young. Play is vital to development and has to take precedent over screen time. The more you leave young children in front of the TV, the less they'll play and the harder it'll become to get them to do it. Also, when very young children watch TV, it's important to watch with them and talk to them. "Oh look, there's a cow" etc. That makes a big difference to how beneficial it is to a child's development and mitigate harm.
It's tablets and mobiles that are the most significant screen time danger, and risk is pretty terrifying as a parent. They stunt a child's emotional development and quickly create addiction as a child's only dopamine release. There's a lot more to it, but that's the bottom line. It's hard to reverse without professional support and will lead to a huge amount of problems for that child.
RogeredSterling@reddit
Growing up in the late 80s/90s, TV was self managing. There were 4 channels and most stuff broadcast was of little interest to a child. The little which was was on at very strict times and very strictly commissioned.
A parent didn't really have to manage it. The broadcasters did it for you. It probably inspired my play if anything. Everything from Fireman Sam to Indiana Jones on video.
Falloffingolfin@reddit
I know, I was born in 80 so same era. It's different now though with streaming. Kids get plonked in front of Disney + for hours at a time.
RogeredSterling@reddit
Oh I know. I'm a parent now and we're occasionally guilty of Disney plus. But not tablets and phones or YouTube.
It's difficult. Sometimes you need that time. Not enough hours in the day to work full time, exercise, clean, cook and on and on.
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
I agree, good insight.
Yes, tv and DVD are a bit more regulated than social media
RogeredSterling@reddit
I didn't even mean regulation. BBFC have a lot to answer for.
I just mean the production standard and educational value (even if not 'educational') was higher. Generally.
When we got the internet in 2000 it was largely used for educational purposes. The web itself was extremely unregulated and better for it with phenomenal listservs and forums. And amateur fan pages etc. Did I see things I shouldn't have? Yes, probably. But it was a glorious era.
And it was the BBC and Channel 4 that made me do an art history degree. An Iranian film season or Arena is unthinkable now. Even the shlock was of a higher calibre with Moviedrome etc. We are in a mainstream cultural dark age.
According_Sundae_917@reddit
Best Clive James recommendation?
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
Jonathan meads etc
RogeredSterling@reddit
Jonathan Meades. Precisely. Can you imagine that being commissioned now?!
Grew up on Meades as a teen. Massively impacted my world view.
According_Sundae_917@reddit
Can you recommend something to start off with?
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
To be honest, I struggled to understand what he said such as his incredible use of the English Synonyms.
very bright guy
AffectionateJump7896@reddit
Yes. I would summarise it as 'short form content'.
Creators have worked out - consciously or organically - and short form content creates longer engagement than long form.
In the old days you watched a 60 minute episode of Jonathan Creek and then went and did something else. Now you can endlessly scroll with no brain engagement. Expecting the doom scrolling generation to pay attention t a 60 minute Maths less is just out of the question.
RogeredSterling@reddit
Yes, even growing up on the X Files and Jonathan Creek was preferable to 'content' (puke, I hate that term). Visual huel. But less nutritious.
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
wow creek, I remember the episode where the lady tied up using her toes to pull the trigger.
They were really good tv
letsgetevil66@reddit
My best friend is a primary school teacher and believes non verbal children have a strong link to screen time abuse and from young age just had an iPad chucked in front of them rather than parents actually spending time playing and talking with their kids . She says that children that were given iPads from a very young age so their parents didn’t have to bother with them are more likely to have problems with speech delay . I trust her judgement she has worked with primary school kids for over 10 years and seen changes .
Moment_13@reddit
Anecdotally I agree with your friend. When my daughter was 2 I'd take her to the local park and multiple times I had other parents comment on how strong her speech was compared to their child. But then the same parents would sit on the bench scrolling on their phone whilst their child ran around the park, and when it was time to go that same phone got put into the child's hand to watch something in the pushchair. They barely spoke to their child.
I spent so much time talking to my daughter when at the park or walking to/from it - about how many pushes on the swings, about the leaves, flowers, animals that we saw when walking to the park. I'm sure that helped develop her speech in ways that children who just watch a screen don't get.
letsgetevil66@reddit
Well your daughter is lucky to have a mum/dad that gives her the time and love she needs .
I doubt some of these parents realise when they give a child an iPad/phone so young what it could potentially mean for them . I also understand that it’s hard work being a parent so screen time can help give parents a moment of peace .
limitedregrett@reddit
2 year olds only able to eat in front of cocomelon on their dads phone...
virusdancer@reddit
As a wee lad back in the late 70s/early 80s, I had a Speak & Spell - it gave me an advantage over my classmates that did not have it. There are all sorts of educational apps for the wee ones and their tablets. It's not about screen time, imho, it's about what's on the screen. Even as adults, what we're looking at on the screen can make the difference between strengthening the mind or turning us into dullards.
Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit
Absolutely 100%. I see this every single day first hand.
The number of people (even at one of the top private school in the UK) who immediately resort to pulling out their phones and taking a picture for ChatGPT of the task at hand is worrying. And I think it's partly due to the fact that children are becoming too used to having hours of screen time everyday, even at school.
The only reason exam results are getting better is for a few reasons :
- There are more past paper : teachers understand the exam-style far more than they did say 10 years ago
- Teachers are getting better at teaching as a result of this
- The volume of resources available for the courses is increasing year on year and those who can actually utilise AI positively have managed to reap massive benefits from the fact it can essentially answer anything.
Spiritual-Archer118@reddit
My partner’s manager has two young kids below the age of 3. One of them is afraid of water and swimming. He asked ChatGPT for advice on how to get the kid to go swimming whilst on holiday. The man in question also hurt his leg slightly. He was due to go for a walk in the Cotswolds with some friends that weekend, and he asked ChatGPT whether he was well enough to go for the walk or not, and took ChatGPT’s advice.
I honestly feel for the kids of today with parents like that who would rather get tech to do everything for them. The amount of kids I see in restaurants who cannot eat a meal without being glued to their iPad or an AI-generated YouTube video on an iPhone is absurd too. If you pull them up on it (my partner’s sisters do it with their kids) they just say it’s the only way to get them to eat. But it’s like, well obviously you must have introduced the habit to them… iPads and iPhones have only been available the past 20 years so how did parents for thousands of years before that possibly cope without them?
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
Yeah its like Ai is automating parenting.
AI read my child a story...
Comon parents, we should be looking forward to that bond, its once in a life time
BigFaithlessness618@reddit
That's bull, I did my GCSES 20+ years ago and we did loads and loads of past papers. I remember in history they asked a very simlar question on my exam as they had asked 4 years earlier. Everyone came out the exam talking about it. It was the same in every subject..
Children aren't getting smarter, that's obvious but exams are more competitive and people are better at passing them. Look at sport, industry anything the people aren't any better but they are getting better results due to more focus, training and understanding.
HenryHarryLarry@reddit
Also schools don’t put you in for an exam unless they think you will pass. That’s not new but it helps to keep the results looking good.
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
interesting perspective, its almost as if exam results are meaningly depreciated currency.
good insight, albeit depressing insight.
Infamous_Tough_7320@reddit
I don't think exams are deliberately becoming depreciated currency, it's just that grade boundaries are going up every year because the average person is just better at solving exam questions of that style. I think the number of people earning A* grades every year is going up a little bit but not enough for exam results to be rendered useless.
IgnorantLobster@reddit
As a non-(but hopefully soon to be) parent, can someone please explain the “screen time epidemic” to me?
In my simple mind you just don’t give your child an iPad at a young age. Kids have lived the entirety of human history without one. What makes this so challenging? I’m clearly missing something.
Hunter037@reddit
Yes, it is as simple as not giving your kid an iPad at a young age, and having restrictions on screen use as they get older.
But a lot of people are too ignorant or lazy to do so. It's easier to stick the TV/iPad in front of them, rather than entertain them or teach them to entertain themselves. We are led to believe that iPads are "educational" so some people think they're helping their kids. A lot of people are also very reticent to correct or punish their kids for poor behaviour, so instead of telling them "no", they just put the TV on and the kid stops misbehaving
Moment_13@reddit
It really is as simple as "just don't give your kid an iPad" and that's what we do as parents, but sometimes it feels like the world is fighting against us on that!
Other parents love to chime in with "just you wait, you'll give in eventually when you want some peace & quiet", cBeebies is great for TV time but they push their app content a lot in between shows, my 4yo starts school in September and most of the local schools set app-based homework activities such as Numbers. It's become so normalised to give a small child a tablet that to not so so feels like swimming against the tide.
thespanglycupcake@reddit
You got it in one!! Someone asked me how my daughter doesn't have meltdowns when I take away her iPad...it's simple, she doesn't have an iPad. You can't miss what you've never had. She gets access to one to watch films only on long journeys. That is it. She's nearly 6 now and we're already getting 'but xx has one' and the answer will always be, 'no'.
HenryHarryLarry@reddit
Parenting is hard. It’s even harder if you have to work two jobs or had a bad labour/post partum experience or are in insecure housing or don’t have a good blueprint for parenting because yours were crap. And so on.
Everyone has a phone nowadays so it’s easy to rely on it for a quick fix when they won’t sit still for a haircut or while you have a doctors appointment. And they are addictive (we are all scrolling Reddit right now) so it’s easy to start relying on it as it works in the short term. Even if you don’t buy any devices they use them in nursery, primary school, their friends will all have them. Try enforcing screen rules on another family when your kid goes to play at someone else’s house.
merlinmonad@reddit
There’s a George Carlin quote: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are even stupider than that.” Also, parenting is hard..like, really hard. When you combine the stupidity of your average person with the difficulty of parenting and combine it with an infinitely novel and extremely effective pacifier…well, you get the picture.
Trace6x@reddit
>you just don’t give your child an iPad at a young age
That's exactly what's happening
CoolExtreme7@reddit
It's not hard to see why when it keeps them occupied..
Bantabury97@reddit
Lazy parents who realise sticking a screen in front of the child stops them from screaming and crying, meaning less work for the parent.
Ok-Breadfruit4837@reddit
Not all screen time is bad. My son watches YouTube a lot but he’s always talking to us about scientific facts he’s learned. We also encourage him to research and question what he’s heard so he doesn’t accept it as gospel.
He also above his expected age for reading. Which comes from us reading with him from a young age.
In my opinion screen time won’t have a negative impact if it’s also supported with other practices.
terryjuicelawson@reddit
Agree, people keep talking like screens are automatically bad but they are as much a tool for good as anything, and even more so. My kids watch a lot of crochet and sewing tutorials and have apps to get new patterns. They are so much further ahead than if they had tried to do this by books, it is like having a private tutor there. There is a world of e-books available via the library on there, maths apps, language, you name it. It just needs monitoring and restricting so they don't just doomwatch repeats of Peppa Pig.
Special-Audience-426@reddit
I recently dated a woman with a 3 year old that was still in nappies and hadn't even said his first word.
She would pretty much ignore him all day and let him sit there on the tablet.
Within a week of spending time with him off his tablet, I had him using enough words to at least say what he wanted. She had literally never tried.
Ok-Breadfruit4837@reddit
That’s 100% on her. I feel bad for the kid. :(
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
good on you.
IMO that abuse, igoring is emotional abuse, did you get on with her.
Well done on given that child some hope, good on you
RainbowPenguin1000@reddit
I think “screen time” is too broad a term.
For example my 8yr old comes home from school and 2-3 times a week goes straight on to my old laptop but they play the learning games on their school website so they are doing math and spelling.
Then on the other side their cousin comes home, grabs their tablet and just watches YouTube every day.
So “screen time” itself isn’t necessarily bad it’s what they do with it.
daddywookie@reddit
My kid has a ridiculous knowledge of history and politics from the content he watches and the games he plays. I spend half the day scrolling YouTube shorts to fill the void. Like any tool, screens aren’t inherently good or evil. We really need some kind of controls on algorithmic social media.
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
very true
It like not all processed food is bad, some processed food is very good for you, i.e dried mango, dark chocolate, popcorn etc
ForwardAd5837@reddit
It’s been proven to, already. People born from 1999 onwards are the first generations to be of lesser intelligence and cognitive capability than the generations before them, where every generation got more intelligent, at least by the metrics used for the studies.
Human’s evolved to learn by watching other humans, then mimicking and learning the building blocks of actions and skills that way. When we place technology at the forefront, we remove the human element and that has a significant effect on a child’s ability to actually execute an action or learn a skill. Add to this, that endless content loops with no downtime between content means that we have generations (and I include older generations in this, people in their 30s and 40s can be just as bad) where their attention spans are shot. They’ve never really had to wait through 5 minutes of adverts between shows, they’ve not had to manually get up and change cables or machines attached to the TV and insert VHS’ or DVDs, they don’t even have to wait for a lengthy start up process for a PC. These minor delays build in tolerance to waiting and acceptance that things can’t be instant. When everyone has a powerful pocket computer on their person that can deliver instant, endless content with no pause or delay, it destroys the tolerance.
So yeah, we’re getting more impatient and stupid. We didn’t evolve to look at a screen 8 hours a day. I feel gross when my phone screen time is 3 hours daily, as if I’m not looking at a laptop for 7 more hours.
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
Completely agree.
I need to work on myself before I can judge others especially children.
We forget that middle age upwards have neuroplastic brains as well and can easily fall into the social media doom loop.
Alot of FB social media doom scrolling is with some baby boomers
So you are right, we all collectively need to look at ourselves
ForwardAd5837@reddit
Yeah definitely. I have to actively work on not picking my phone up as a habit when I’m not doing something else. It’s bad! When I was a kid, if you were bored, like due to daytime TV being limited and shit for instance, you had to make your own fun. Play with toys, fire up a console, go out and find friends to play with. Content was finite. You wanted to watch a new film or play a new game? It’ll have more cost attached to it than now, where there’s endless free service games with infinite content, or everyone has thousands of films and shows at their fingertips on streaming services.
Whilst it’s great having that level of choice, there’s something to be said for being forced to be more creative or exercise different options to alleviate boredom.
Think-Image-9072@reddit
I think maybe exams are getting easier? Recently my son did a mock GCSE in maths. He’s 14, almost 15. The first question was “name an odd number”. I genuinely couldn’t believe it.
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
lol really, crazy
A better question would be name the only even prime number
TachiH@reddit
The exams are to some degree getting easier but they are still just memory tasks. You could pass almost all of the GCSEs without understanding the content if your good at remembering things for the exam.
They are also marked on a curve so no matter what there will always be about the same grade distribution even if the same exam was used now and in 1950. If everyone gets a question wrong it is just worth less.
Screen time is affecting students and its even worse in the schools with 1:1 devices as there is so little time spent writing things out.
Teachers are also to some degree getting lazier with the assessment of students but that had to happen to deal with classes of 30 and all of the bullshit that comes with teaching in the UK.
oiseauvert989@reddit
The kids born since 2020 haven't done many exams yet. Kids born in 2010 didn't tend to have their own ipads as 2 year olds.
IndividualBreak3788@reddit
Excessive screen time impacts development of kids older than 2 also.
Test scores declining globally. We fucked yo
oiseauvert989@reddit
Of course. Its a terrible idea for a 10 year old as well but I still dont think we have seen the full impact.
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
true good point, its not truly filtered through
srig8@reddit
There is too much fast-paced content which, I believe, is driving the ADHD in young children epidemic.
AdAffectionate2418@reddit
My daughter and my niece have about the same amount of screen time - and both of them get less than i had as a kid.
However, my daughter's programme are heavily curated by my wife and I. My niece, on the other hand, gets unfiltered YouTube kids.
The difference in attention spans, ability to focus etc. is very noticeable. I get that it could be personality or overall parenting style etc - but I also suspect this plays a large part in it.
Doily_Enjoyer@reddit
I think it’s multi-faceted. Yes, screen time being used in certain ways to consume certain media is part of it. Not just the children consuming it but also parents who are less engaged with them, particularly at early stages when children are little sponges learning so much just from interacting with caregivers.
I also think the pressures upon the state education system have meant that, at present, the best kids can hope for is learning to pass an exam. Critical thinking and problem solving outside of this is rarely covered.
I think social media really is the real life “so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should”. Our primitive brains are not dealing with it on so many levels. Yes, I do see the irony in saying this on social.
thespanglycupcake@reddit
I think the problem is iPads, rather than screens (TV) in general. But there's also so much contradiction in schools - for the past 5 years or so, everything in schools seems to be done on iPads! Homework is sent to smart phones. On the one hand, they tell you that they want to reduce kids' phone access...on the other hand, they make them do everything on/with a phone.
melnificent@reddit
The screen time issue is with the parents. They barely interact with their kids and then wonder why they are failing developmental milestones. Recently I was sat with a parent that had a few kids and youngest was about 5 and non-verbal... Parent didn't look up from her phone or interact with the kid until he was laying in the dirt (get up).
MattyCatts1@reddit
Absolutely, and more access to unfiltered things on YouTube etc. I watched some kids TV with my lad the other day and it's just crap really with some adult themes running through it. It doesn't help that their is also a lot of screen time at his school too.
bozwold@reddit
My youngest daughter is currently doing her SATs at school, she brought home last years paper as a mock test/homework and can confirm I still have absolutely no idea how to do long division or quadratic equations.
She has a smartphone, spends far too much time on it I think, but she's messaging friends or playing games which I think the game side of it has sharpened her mind, very fast thinking and the social aspect surely has to be positive.
As with anything, it depends on the parents. Her cousins are brainrot enthusiasts and their mother used to put the tablet in front of them when they were like 5 years old so she could have quiet time. They're in lowest sets at school. Neither of my children got a phone until 10, much to the disgust of school because a lot of homework is sent via email or app.
Touchscreens and apps are the future so you can't avoid them unfortunately
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
good on you, disgraceful does not offer alternative to tech for kids.
well done on ignoring the status quo of that school
JustStraightUpLost@reddit
My sons school pushes his homework being exclusively online as being an environmental thing.
That being said he’s in year 7 and receiving 5 times the amount of homework I remember getting 15 years ago. He often gets 2-3 pieces of homework per subject a week, and sometimes may have 15 pieces of homework to complete in a week. I personally think it’s a little too much and can understand his reluctance to want to do it.
tacticall0tion@reddit
Yes/no, I don't think its necessarily the screentime, but more the content they consume. Infinite scrolling on short form content that is literally designed to be short enough that your brain doesn't register the time passing, and gives you the dopamine hit every clip.
I've spent a lot of time glue to screens, mainly through gaming rather than watching shows/films. I however didn't do most of my education through a screen, which I also believe is partially responsible for the decline in educational growth today.
There's also still the hang ups from covid at play which isn't helping, along with in my opinion alot more piss poor parenting, and a lack of parental input in child development. More children are arriving at schools lacking basic skills that you should have learnt by the time you're starting school. IE toilet training, manners, using a knife & fork
stuaird1977@reddit
It's easy to blame screen time, my 10 year old goes training 5 or 6 times a week so he maybe has an hour or so now max.
What doesn't get mentioned is the absolute lack of management and leadership in schools. I have first hand experience of schools who are rated outstanding incapable of dealing with bullying, incapable of managing their own staff. A lot of schools are run as businesses and the heads are accountable to no one. The governor's are there to protect the school, the councils aren't interested and when Ofsted agree with safe guarding issues they refer you back to the council who refer you back to the school governor's and the compliant procedure and around around you go. Sort that mess out as well as lazy parenting
WearingMarcus@reddit (OP)
true.
I often wonder about these so called "outstanding" ofsted inspections.
ExperienceNo2543@reddit
I quit being a TA last year, reading time now consists of reading on screens. There's an option to listen to it being read to you, which all the kids use. As a result, their reading skills are so far behind, because they're not actually practicing reading at all, they're just listening to a story. I've also noticed worse behaviour around screens. Personally I think we should go back to pen and paper, only using a computer or screen for final drafts, not that those seem to be part of the curriculum either now.
theflowersyoufind@reddit
Yes, massively. We all know it is, but it’s so much worse than people talk about.
I’m a teacher and the most noticeable impact is attention spans. It’s scary.
hockeynut15@reddit
I think “screen time” gets treated as one big thing when it really isn’t. There’s a huge difference between a kid using an iPad to learn, read, research things they’re interested in or watch genuinely educational content, versus just endlessly consuming low-effort YouTube or TikTok videos.
The bigger factor is probably still parenting and engagement. Screens can be a great tool if parents are involved and there’s still a balance of reading, conversation, hobbies, family time etc. But if a child is basically being left alone with an algorithm for hours every day, that’s obviously going to shape their attention span and development in a very different way.
I wouldn’t be surprised if over the next decade the gap grows between kids whose screen use is structured and purposeful, and kids who are just left to scroll endlessly. At the end of the day, children with parents who actively engage with them, read with them and encourage curiosity will probably always have an advantage, regardless of technology.
Frosty_Customer_9243@reddit
Not a teacher but been hearing from teachers they are reverting their classrooms back to blackboard and removing the tech that was introduced in the last two decades. Reasons given is that it is better for children to stay focussed and improves the efficiency of learning.
Just what I heard but I can believe it to be true.
auntie_eggma@reddit
When I was teaching no phone use was allowed in the classroom.
It's fucking insane not to have that rule.
-aLonelyImpulse@reddit
Exam results aren't really the best indicator of learning. It's pretty manageable for most people to memorise data and regurgitate it onto a page, which is the foundation of most standardised testing.
Where you really see an impact is in attention span, critical thimking, and social etiquette. Screentime has adversely affected these things across all generations. The way everything is structured is now designed to be consumed as quickly and easily as possible, videos only seconds long implore viewers to "wait til the end!", belief in conspiracy and distrust of basic science has skyrocketed, and it used to be totally unacceptable to blast music in public without headphones or thrust your phone in people's faces and begin recording, or treat every interaction in our lives as potential "content".
I think these areas are more damning for our young people than exam results, and will have the greater impact in future.
YoIronFistBro@reddit
No, the issue is when they're not doing anything else.
SpiceFein@reddit
The give you kids an iPad and dont raise them because youre lazy degenerates havent really started to take exams yet. Id say its the generation that are 13 or 14. They might be book smart but they cant hold a conversation for more than 2 minutes and when they dont have a phone to look at for 2 minutes their default is "im bored"
FornyHucker22@reddit
more specifically social media
YragNitram1956@reddit
Yes. "Excessive screen time in children is strongly linked to negative physical and mental health outcomes, including obesity, poor sleep, reduced attention spans, and delayed social development. Experts recommend limiting daily recreational screen time to under two hours for school-aged children, and under one hour for children under five to prevent these issues. Mayo Clinic.
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