I have one in front of me every day at work. I have one in my pocket each and every day, and another in my computer bag, and there’s even one on the Skytrain platform I wait on every day on my commute to work. I am surrounded by screens!
Today (right now as I’m typing!) CBC’s LiveRightNow is doing a live chat getting kids more active, in light of the Canadian Society for Excercise Physiology’s recent guideline on sedentary behaviour for children that was published this week. There are some great ideas being exchanged, and I hear the chat dialogue will be posted afterwards if you’d like to read it and missed the event itself.
The “2″ in SCOPE’s “Live 5-2-1-0” Guideline is Power Down: no more than two hours of screen time a day. We define screen time as time spent outside of school hours in front of electronic devices with screens, such as televisions, video games (such as XBox), and portable devices (like Nintendo DS or laptop computers). Continue reading “Too much screen time?” »
