SUMMARY - Screen Time and Healthy Development
A pediatrician asks a mother how much screen time her four-year-old gets each day, and the mother feels the familiar mix of guilt and defensiveness, knowing that whatever number she provides will be judged against guidelines she has read about but cannot consistently follow, uncertain whether the educational videos her daughter watches while she prepares dinner count the same as the passive cartoons that buy her thirty minutes of peace, and unclear whether the video calls with grandparents should be tallied alongside everything else.