Managing screen time has always been a challenge. And then COVID 19 pandemic happened. With everyone at home people are globally spending more time performing visually demanding near tasks using digital screens, for home-based learning, work from home or during spare time. Instead of classroom interaction in person or work from the office, we got involved in remote learning or working, meaning hours a day of screen time. As we want to interact with friends and family daily or

A new meta-analysis in the journal JAMA Pediatrics finds that more overall time on screens each day, regardless of its quality, is linked to lower language development and we may add vision underdevelopment as well. "What we do see is, as the number of hours increases, so too does the risk for problematic outcomes," said lead researcher Sheri Madigan of the University of Calgary in Canada. "What this work suggests is that the quality of screen-viewing matters, but I think it