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Media is Bad for Kids... Right?

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Screen time.  When I think about how much time I spend staring at TVs or devices in general I get concerned, so it makes sense that parents would be worried about media usage with their children. After learning the facts and opinions from multiple sources, I had the opportunity to interview my sister (since I don't have kids) and got her opinion.  My sister currently has three children- three and under- and works full-time. She also had concerns about raising her children in a media-saturated world, especially regarding television, noting that exposure was harder to eliminate and she herself slipped into habits of media usage ( Radesky 2015). Despite using TV as an electronic babysitter when she has work meetings, she still manages their use of media using a multitude of methods:           No tablets or phones           TV cannot be on for more than two hours in one day           They set aside...