Mayo Clinic Q&A: Pandemic Screen Time

Monitoring screen time for children can be a challenge for parents and caregivers under normal circumstances. But with the COVID-19 pandemic remote schooling has increased the amount of time students are glued to computer monitors and smartphone screens. "Depending on the age of the child there are some considerations because our younger children are just not meant to be staring at a screen for six seven hours a day" says Dr. Tina Ardon a Mayo Clinic Family Medicine physician. (Published 12/10/2020)