Kids and the Impact of Screen Time

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🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:29.8	Yeah, this is how our kids are becoming little robots, little mindless robots.
0:38.3	Here we go.
0:39.6	This 2025 common sense media senses, which offers a fresh look at how kids under eight are using screens.
0:53.8	40% of two-year-olds own their own tablet.
1:00.0	58% of 4-year-olds have their own tablet.
1:06.6	A quarter of kids by age eight have a cell phone.
1:12.9	God bless the other 75% parents.
1:15.9	God bless you.
1:17.5	Kids ages 5 to 8 now spend more than 3.5 hours per day on screens.
1:24.9	We used to do that running around outside, playing with friends, playing with
1:30.3	our parents. Now we're staring dumbly at a screen, which is definitely changing the whole way
1:38.1	your brain works. You think a kid running and playing with dogs and friends and running around and getting dirty and breaking an ankle or something is bad for their brains?
1:49.5	No, it's really good for their brains.
1:52.8	Ah.
1:54.8	Children under two spend an average of a little over an hour on screens daily. That number jumps to two hours for kids,
2:03.6	two to four, three hours and a half for kids five to eight. Okay, the way kids engage with screens
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