3 fears about screen time for kids -- and why they're not true | Sara DeWitt

We check our phones upwards of 50 times per day -- but when our kids play around with them, we get nervous. Are screens ruining childhood? Not according to children's media expert Sara DeWitt....

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I want us to start by thinking about this device,the phone that's very likely in your pockets right now.Over 40 percent of Americans check their phoneswithin five minutes of waking up every morning.And then they look at it another 50 times during the day.Grownups consider this device to be a necessity.But now I want you to imagine it in the hands of a three-year-old,and as a society, we get anxious.Parents are very worriedthat this device is going to stunt their children's social growth;that it's going to keep them from getting up and moving;that somehow,this is going to disrupt childhood.So, I want to challenge this attitude.I can envision a futurewhere we would be excited to see a preschooler interacting with a screen.These screens can get ...