Le autorità sanitarie svedesi vietano smartphone e tablet ai bambini piccoli
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/03/ban-smartphones-tablets-toddlers-swedish-authorities/
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Le autorità sanitarie svedesi vietano smartphone e tablet ai bambini piccoli
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/03/ban-smartphones-tablets-toddlers-swedish-authorities/
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***The Telegraph reports:***
Health authorities in Sweden have urged parents to ban all screen time for two-year-olds and limit teenagers to just three hours a day.
The new screen time guidelines, set by the nation’s Public Health Agency, come amid widespread global concerns about [the effects of TV, tablet and smartphone usage on children](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/09/ban-mobile-phone-sales-under-16s/).
Swedish officials warned of a “sleep crisis” among teenagers and said phones and tablets should be kept out of bedrooms.
Jakob Forssmed, Sweden’s public health minister, said: “For too long, smartphones and other screens have been allowed to enter every aspect of our children’s lives.”
Screen addiction meant young people did not have “time for communal activities, physical activity or adequate sleep”, he added.
Toddlers should be forbidden from phones, tablets and TV time, officials said, while children aged between two and five should be allowed just one hour per day.
**Read more:** [**https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/03/ban-smartphones-tablets-toddlers-swedish-authorities/**](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/09/03/ban-smartphones-tablets-toddlers-swedish-authorities/)
First country to do so?
Europe is slowly but surely becoming China, and Sweden is at the forefront of it (Looking at you, Ylva Johansson).
Just last week, Finland’s biggest newspaper had an article where children’s doctors were telling about a rise in kids who, instead of learning language the typical way, have partially learned to express their feelings by parroting lines they’ve heard on youtube, ending up with a weird blend of half English and half Finnish exclamations. These kids can’t really have a conversation, they just react to emotions and express them with something they learned online instead of in interhuman communication. There’s something deeply disturbing in this.
What I find interesting that the article failed to mention the recommendation for the parents to keep in mind that their own screen habits also affect both the interaction with their child and children’s screen habits.
Edit:[Full press briefing for those interested](https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/nyheter-och-press/nyhetsarkiv/2024/september/rekommendationer-for-en-balanserad-skarmanvandning-bland-barn/).
ban these things, too!!!!
[https://www.amazon.de/Kinderwagen-Abmessungen-Garantierte-Stabilit%C3%A4t-Unterhaltung/dp/B0CT8VWN4C/ref=asc_df_B0CT8VWN4C/?tag=googshopde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697037059107&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16353083544550394075&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9042934&hvtargid=pla-2300631007569&psc=1&mcid=cf6133eb029c3f23bc6dda2b73ef276f&th=1&psc=1&gad_source=1](https://www.amazon.de/Kinderwagen-Abmessungen-Garantierte-Stabilit%C3%A4t-Unterhaltung/dp/B0CT8VWN4C/ref=asc_df_B0CT8VWN4C/?tag=googshopde-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=697037059107&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16353083544550394075&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9042934&hvtargid=pla-2300631007569&psc=1&mcid=cf6133eb029c3f23bc6dda2b73ef276f&th=1&psc=1&gad_source=1)
Why would you even use such things on toddler.
That’s the WHO recommendation. We’ve made exceptions for video calls with relatives.
I dont understand how the ban will work. I hope government knows that toddlers dont have a phone but use their parents`s phone instead.
Ezra Kleins latest podcast is an interesting dive into this topic and is mostly dismissing the concept of what screen time is, and how we treat the concept of screens mostly as a symtom of our adult shame of it.