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Parents accept kids’ techo-driven lives
PARENTS would rather their kids were safe at home socialising on the internet than out unaccounted for.
The parents spoke about the challenges of tearing their kids away from their mobile phones and television – saying they feared letting children play alone in the streets following the abduction of Madeleine McCann in Portugal.
They were speaking at a meeting of Shadow Minister for Education Anne McIntosh MP and pupils of Millbank primary school.
Pupils told the Tory MP that children are watching too much TV and it’s having a negative impact on their family life.
A dozen pupils voiced their own concerns that their peers were wasting too much time playing computer games and watching television.
Most felt computer games were addictive and admitted many spent more time socialising in a virtual reality.
Jessica Collins, 11, told the MP that she felt computer games were too addictive and unhealthy.
She said: “I play Sims on my laptop a lot and I keep saying that I’ll stop when I get to a certain stage but then I can’t.”
The children said that if encouraged they would ditch the screen and play more sport.
Headteacher, Alyson Russen said: “Some of the pupils in our hard-to-reach families have excessive and unbalanced media habits. It isn’t acceptable and politicians – as well as the rest of us – need to look at the issue and come up with some practical solutions.”
The shadow minister said: “The time for talking is over. Study after study has proved that too much screen time is bad for children. We now need to look at constructive ways of helping parents take action.” |
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