Michael Regilio

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The Jordan Harbinger Show · 1332: Screen Time | Skeptical Sunday · 24 May 2026 podcast

But then after 18 months, the recommendation is limited screen time between 18 and 24 months.

And even then, an adult should be present to explain what is happening and help make real world connections for the young person.

Yeah, I can only imagine.

This gets exactly into what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends.

So they say for kids between two and five, no more than an hour a day of what they call sedentary recreational screen time.

That phrase definitely matters.

The sedentary recreational part, because that's what you're talking about.

It's not the educational part.

It's not the interactive.

It's just the sitting there watching for the fun of watching.

And a systemic review and meta-analysis in 2023 found that increased screens in early childhood is associated with poor cognitive and psychosocial outcomes.

Not because screens are just straight brain poison, but because passive viewing replaces conversation, play, and sleep.

That is such a good point.

That is a super sharp observation.

And you're hitting on what researchers call the confounding variable problem.

And it's definitely something they're trying to consider when looking at this data.

The honest answer from the research is probably both, like you just said, but it's genuinely hard to untangle.

Some studies try to control for parenting quality, socioeconomic factors, and home environment, but you can't perfectly isolate the screen variable from the parenting.

So parenting is kind of an X factor.

Unless the researchers can go into the home 24 hours a day for some number of days and judge the parents, they just don't have an indication one way or the other of how much that's playing into it.

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