Is It Too Early to Give Parents Recommendations for Screen Time?

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Do you think it's too early to give parents recommendations for the amount of screen time for their children per day? I mean, i looked at this a lot for the book, and it was really hard to come to a conclusion. There is definitely evidence of am working memory impacts from multi screening and being on lots of screen,. But in turns of the screen time work, there is the very big government reviews and meta analysis tend not to come with he's a prescriptive amount of time.

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