{"id":171,"date":"2012-11-26T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2012-12-17T14:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T14:27:04","slug":"facing-the-screen-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/facing-the-screen-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: Facing the Screen Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kids_on_computer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-172\" title=\"kids_on_computer\" src=\"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kids_on_computer-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kids_on_computer-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/kids_on_computer.png 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/commercialfreechildhood.org\/screendilemma\">Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood<\/a> is a non-profit organization whose mission is to support parents\u2019 efforts to raise healthy families by limiting commercial access to children and ending the exploitative practice of child-targeted marketing.\u00a0 In working for the rights of children to grow up\u2014and the freedom of parents to raise them\u2014without being undermined by corporate interests, CCFC promotes a more democratic and sustainable world.<\/p>\n<p>Screens of all designs now make up the reality of even the youngest child. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time for children under 2 and only 2 hours a day for children who are older. What are families and early childhood programs to do when considering the merit of an avalanche of new media available to and targeted to children?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commercialfreechildhood.org\/screendilemma\">Facing the Screen Dilemma<\/a> is a resource for early childhood educators, as well as families, to make more informed decisions about how young children are interacting with media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screens of all designs now make up the reality of even the youngest child. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no screen time for children under 2 and only 2 hours a day for children who are older. What are families and early childhood programs to do when considering the merit of an avalanche of new media available to and targeted to children?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[28,22,9,25,26,27,23,24],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-world","category-montessori-parents","tag-campaign-for-commercial-free-childhood","tag-computer","tag-computers","tag-ipad","tag-ipod","tag-phone","tag-screen-time","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winfieldhouse.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}