About Face by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781550816884
Publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd
Published: 2019-03-02T00:00:00+00:00

WHAT AMOUNT OF SCREEN TIME IS APPROPRIATE? WHAT AMOUNT IS TOO MUCH?

More often than not, troubled parents and loved ones reach out for professional help when alarmed by the amount of time the gamer puts into their video gaming. A long-held assumption is that time spent on gaming is indicative of addiction. However, studies have shown that the mere investment of time, albeit disproportionate, problematic, and mindless, does not necessarily predict negative health and/or psychological outcomes (Ferguson et al., 2012). Sixty hours a week spent on an online strategy game could be beneficial and even sustaining for the user whose livelihood (a career in video-game development, for instance) depends on such levels of screen time while detrimental to another user’s well-being where such gaming only exhausts their physical, emotional, and mental resources.

So how much screen time is “too much?” To the child in possession of a precious, young, fragile, highly malleable/plastic brain in which neuronal circuits (based on genetically pre-wired blueprints the operation and existence of which can still barely be explained by science even in 2018) are forming at the speed of light in manners highly sensitive to environmental stimuli received through all six senses (sight, smell, touch, taste, sound, and proprioception), who still has yet to develop mindfulness, integrity, sense of responsibility, curiosity, and empathy in his/her core attitude towards mature global citizenship? Responses to questions that follow shall further strengthen this position of mine.

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