Is children's screen time necessarily harmful?
Too important ?
For several years, worried speeches have affirmed this.
These discourses respond to less concerned studies which distinguish the contents, explaining that it is especially necessary to discuss with the child what he has just watched... Two irreconcilable camps seem to have been constructed.
Sabine Duflo, psychologist, is one of those worried.
Author of
He does not take off the screens
(just republished and postfaced by the child psychiatrist Maurice Berger), this member of the Surexposition screens collective is exasperated by the “
lukewarm
” speeches which would delay the establishment of legal restrictions on the time of use for the youngest.
“
Families don’t care about studies.
They are demanding solutions
,” she said in this debate which pits her against Magali Lavielle Guida.
A speech therapist and psychologist, the latter contributed to the collective work
Children and screens
(Retz, 2023) which aims to deconstruct “
alarmist clichés
”.
She explains, among other things, why talking about “
addiction to screens
” seems incorrect to her.
LE FIGARO. – In recent years we have heard worrying speeches about screens. Is it proven that so-called excessive exposure – more than 4 to 6 hours per day – to screens compromises child development? And what about the more limited exposure?
SABINE DUFLO. -
It is not the speech on screens that is worrying but the effects that it can produce: behavioral addictions.
In a column published in…
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