Pros And Cons Of Screen Time For Kids | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

by ParentCo. April 27, 2015

According The Onion, these are the pros of screen time for kids PROS
  • Provides desensitization needed to face horrors of real life
  • Sedentary, obese children significantly easier to babysit
  • Prevents children from taking up hobbies you’d have to feign interest in
  • Comfort in knowing Mariska Hargitay watching over your children
  • Finite battery life an important lesson on mortality
  • Digital era a perfect scapegoat for child’s all-around terrible upbringing
Read the cons here: Pros And Cons Of Screen Time For Kids | The Onion - America's Finest News Source.


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