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Surgeon General Advisory Wants Kids to Live ‘Beyond the Confines of Screens’

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Surgeon General Advisory Wants Kids to Live ‘Beyond the Confines of Screens’
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The U.S. Surgeon General’s office issued a warning yesterday about the harms of extended uses of screens on children, raising concerns about its impact on academic performance, physical health and mental well-being. The advisory follows a contentious debate over screen time that has been fraught in recent years as schools that implemented 1-to-1 device ratios amid the pandemic now struggle with student attention, behavioral and mental health issues that took root around the same time. The latest

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