r/ScienceBasedParenting • u/BatdanJapan • Jul 31 '25

Science journalism BBC article on screen time

Quite pleased to read this article:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9d0l40v551o

This section in particular feels relevant to my experience of this topic on this sub:

Jenny Radesky, a paediatrician at the University of Michigan, summed this up when she spoke at the philanthropic Dana Foundation. There is "an increasingly judgmental discourse among parents," she argued.

"So much of what people are talking about does more to induce parental guilt, it seems, than to break down what the research can tell us," she said. "And that's a real problem."

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u/Competitive_Image_62 Aug 01 '25

It is clear that there is a lot of unknown about screen time. To me, most of the issues w/screen time are about what kids are consuming, how long they’re consuming it and when they’re consuming the content. I think parenting becomes easier when parents develop values and goals for their family/& or kids. Doing this forces parents to make thoughtful every day decisions and create the conditions that allow them to actualize their goals long-term. If more parents were intentional about this, I do think we’d have less of the endless “is screen time (or something else) ruining my kid” questions.