Why experts say you should consider scaling back screen time for kids during the school year

With school back in session, kids aren’t just using laptops, computers and tablets at home anymore; they also have screen time at school. So, how can a parent know if it’s becoming too much? “It seems like schools are trying to reduce screen time in school and reduce the amount of homework that is given on screens. I feel like we’re all on the same page as educators, parents, physicians, and realizing that we kind of swung too far in one direction. That pendulum went too far towards screen time. And now we’re in a technological era where we can’t take it away and swing back completely the other way. But we want to settle somewhere in the middle,” said Dr. Gina Robinson, a pediatrician at Cleveland Clinic Children’s. Robinson said she doesn’t count anything involving homework or schoolwork as screen time since that has to be done. However, anything else that’s considered recreational should be limited to less than two hours a day. And it doesn’t have to be all or nothing. You could opt