Wie unbeaufsichtigte Bildschirmzeit gefährdeten Vorschulkindern schadet. Kinder, die durchschnittlich 10 bis 30 Minuten allein vor dem Bildschirm pro Tag verbrachten, hatten tendenziell schlechtere Sprachkenntnisse und hatten häufiger Probleme mit ihrem Verhalten und ihren Emotionen
https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/unsupervised-screen-time
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Early problems with language can have a lasting negative impact on social and emotional development. Building on this foundation, a new groundbreaking study from Florida Atlantic University and Aarhus University in Denmark tests the hypothesis that unsupervised, solitary screen time during early childhood increases the likelihood that language difficulties will lead to socioemotional difficulties.
The study, published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology , found that pathways from poor communication skills and low productive vocabulary to later adjustment problems were particularly strong among preschool- and kindergarten-aged children who averaged at least 10 to 30 minutes of solitary screen time per day across the course of a week.
Study participants were 546 4- and 5-year-olds (264 girls, 282 boys) attending 24 population-based childcare centers across 13 municipalities in Denmark. Teachers completed assessments twice of child adjustment difficulties, such as conduct and emotional problems, over the course of about six months during a single school year. At the outset, teachers administered standardized tests of child language abilities, including communication skills and productive vocabulary. Parents reported on solitary screen time, which was defined as the average number of hours per week that children spent alone viewing handheld devices or television, excluding screen time supervised by or consumed with an adult.
Consistent with several previous studies, there were longitudinal associations from oral language problems to later adjustment difficulties. Across the six-month period, poor communication skills and high levels of solitary screen time separately predicted escalating emotional difficulties.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10802-025-01409-8
Misleading title, the study was focused on the behaviour of kids who already had poor language skills “In a new study, FAU researchers, in collaboration with Aarhus University in Denmark, find that unsupervised or “solo” screen time worsens the behavioral and emotional challenges confronting young children with limited language skills. “
This is why studies like this are so annoying to me. The study does NOT say that screen time is the issue. What it says is that time spent alone, unsupervised is time not spent helping existing issues which have been linked to developing further issues later. Because of this, the fact that the unsupervised time happened to be with a screen has nothing to do with the actual conclusion. It states clearly that it counts any unsupervised alone time as equal and just uses the screens as a scapegoat.
You should see what it does to adults. (I say while having unsupervised and intentionally meaningless scrolling time).
well i was sitting playing with buttons for hours alone, and i turn out fine…
My wife is from Argentina, and her goal was for our daughter to speak Spanish first.
But she tried to limit screentime, whereas I watched loads and loads of Ms. Rachel with my daugther.
My daughter started speaking English first, until we switched to the Spanish dub of Ms. Rachel.
I mean, YouTube for kids is just videos that are intended to break the notion of a personal space, to expose kids to simulations of sexual and physical abuse, and to directly conect kids with pedophiles.
Go to r\YouTube and it is all about videos of sexual abuse and violence being put on children’s playlists.