Attention, parents: You may be doing screen time limits all wrong

The World Health Organization says that compulsively playing video games now qualifies as a new mental health condition, in a move that some critics warn may risk stigmatizing too many young players. Time in front of screens – TV, video games, smartphones – hurts kids' performance at school, right? Some screen time is worse than others when it comes to kids and academic performance, according to a new analysis published in JAMA Pediatrics, a respected medical journal. Television viewing, followed by video games, were the two activities most tied to poor school performance, researchers showed in a review of 58 studies published over the decades. That kind of screen time affected both children and teens – though overall, teens' performance seemed to suffer the most as screen time increased.