{"id":6840,"date":"2015-09-04T07:13:04","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/3.0\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2015-09-04T07:13:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T14:13:04","slug":"too-much-screen-time-hurts-teens-grades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/too-much-screen-time-hurts-teens-grades\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Screen Time Hurts Teens&#8217; Grades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/3.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Capture.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6841 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/3.0\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Capture-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"236\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a>A not-surprising finding from a recent study of teenagers has revealed that extra screen time hurts their grades. Specifically, one hour extra each day in front of a screen resulted in a two-grade decline (about 10 points) on exams and two extra hours produced an even greater drop in grades.<\/p>\n<p>Usually these studies don&#8217;t allow us to determine causation, but this prospective study, which examined kids over ten years, makes causation pretty clear.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, the article didn&#8217;t describe what &#8220;extra&#8221; meant, but I&#8217;m going to assume it means above the average amount of screen time or an increase of use over the length of the study.<\/p>\n<p>In another non-surprise, teens who studied or read an extra hour each day performed significantly better on exams than their screen-time counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>Moral of this story: Some screen use is fine, but too much is definitely not a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A not-surprising finding from a recent study of teenagers has revealed that extra screen time hurts their grades. Specifically, one hour extra each day in front of a screen resulted in a two-grade decline (about 10 points) on exams and two extra hours produced an even greater drop in grades. Usually these studies don&#8217;t allow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1525],"tags":[41,412,501,78,45,1066,105,314],"class_list":["post-6840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","tag-children","tag-education-2","tag-grades","tag-media","tag-parenting-2","tag-screen","tag-technology-2","tag-teenagers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drjimtaylor.com\/4.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}