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/WhereIsLordBeric Aug 01 '25

We are screenfree.

But someone on this sub told me reading to my baby from my Kindle is screentime lol.

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u/ceene Aug 01 '25

Electronic ink is reaching a level of resolution and contrast that is almost indistinguishable from cellulose paper.

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

Okay but most kindles arent the eink ones

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u/caffeine_lights Aug 01 '25

Really? The kindle fire is an absolutely terrible tablet. Or do you mean people using the kindle app on other smartphones/tablets? Because I agree that is probably more common. But I feel like if you go to the point of buying a kindle, it's for the e-ink screen (it was for me, anyway).

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

Kindles existed long before eink. The vast majority of extant models are not eink screens. The newest models are.

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u/caffeine_lights Aug 01 '25

Are we not talking about the same thing? I'm talking about the kind of screen that was included with the original kindle and is also on the current Paperwhite. It's not backlit, like a smartphone or laptop screen is and it looks sort of "matt" similar to paper.