The Public Health Agency’s new recommendations on screen time for children have sparked a great deal of debate. Many parents are thinking about how to approach the new advice.
One question that is raised is how much the children get access to screens during the afternoons during free time.
– I think it’s problematic when you teach children to relax with a movie or eat food with a movie. Except that they miss out on playing with each other, she says.
SVT Nyheter Öst’s round-up shows that after-school children are allowed to use screens to varying degrees, depending on the municipality. Hear more in the clip above.
Different rules about screen time
Helena Elvstrand, assistant professor at Linköping University, has done a lot of fieldwork and researches in after-school education, technology and preschool. Her experience is that the leisure center does not use screens to such a large extent.
– It can also be the case that children with, for example, a diagnosis of NPF need to sit in front of a screen, but then it can also be that there is a lack of resources and that a screen is then put forward, says Helena Elvstrand.
But she is also concerned that the new recommendations could contribute to debt accumulation. Hear her story in the video below.
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Helena Elvstrand, associate professor at Linköping University tells how she sees the new advice on screen time. Photo: Mimmi Moberg/SVT