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TheRealBlerb t1_j7b657m wrote

Reply to A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

Anecdotally valid. I was placed in a bouncy chair and watched The Wiggles, Thomas the Tank Engine, and other such shows when I was an infant. My attention, emotions, and self-control are almost nonexistent, I never did any drugs until I was 18, and I’ve been evaluated in many ways that have proven I don’t have any mental disorders (ADHD and the like).

Glided through school due to intelligence and benefits it has that apply to the rote school system, but my executive functioning is just about as good as it was when I was a kid (early 20’s now).

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enirgin t1_j7b5g2u wrote

Reply to Vitamin D supplements linked to reduced risk of suicide, study of veterans finds by thebelsnickle1991

Not useful information on its own; it's a correlational study. If you filled a Vitamin D rx you were less likely to commit suicide. It does not show any causal relationship.

Maybe if you were able to get out of the house more easily and buy vitamins more easily you were less likely to commit suicide. Or if you were less likely you took better care of yourself (maybe less depressed?) and got vitamins. Or some disease that required vitamin D supplements was associated with lower suicide risk.

Not to say someone shouldn't follow up with a more rigorous study, but this is nothing more than a teaser for more serious research.

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Mr_Abobo t1_j7b5499 wrote

Reply to comment by XxhumanguineapigxX in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

That’s as a child. As an owner of a baby, I can tell you they don’t really watch things like adults or even children do. Two hours of screen time is wild because that means they’re being plunked down and forgotten about, most likely.

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Lazrath t1_j7b473p wrote

Reply to comment by SharpHoodie420 in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

i can see checking things on the phone during break if no one else is around. what i can't understand is people not even being able to walk from one place to another without having their eyes glued to their phone, even on stairs.

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Neither_Ride3473 t1_j7b0zef wrote

Reply to comment by usr_dev in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

Give them a box for gods sake.

Infants are idiots and are amused by everything around them including themselves. Obviously this rule doesn't apply to every infant but in my own experience I have never met an infant that couldn't keep themselves occupied with basically anything.

This is the reasoning behind people that lock everything up in their homes and baby proof everything. Infants are curious little shits that keep themselves occupied by whatever means possible.

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UnApprovedActivities t1_j7b0iku wrote

Reply to comment by Odd-Sundae7874 in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

I think this way about all my parenting choices. Like, it was important to me that my child take naps in a very structured way, but then I was like.... what will I do with 2? and we loosened up some. Still take naps but no longer work about laying down at the exact same time and place every day.

Edit it have us back a lot of freedom and it's way less stressful.

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TarthenalToblakai t1_j7az5cg wrote

Reply to comment by EFisImportant in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

Oh yeah, I've no qualms with the study itself. It effectively acknowledges what I've said here, and uses the word "is associated with" as opposed to "may lead to".

As per usual, the problem is less with the study itself and more with how (in this case social) media headlines misconstrue it to put forward a simplified "pop science" narrative.

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Neither_Ride3473 t1_j7ax118 wrote

Reply to comment by STATmelatonin in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

I was so confused by this post. Who gives "screen time" to an infant? Infants amuse themselves by just existing and i couldn't even begin to understand why an infant would need any type of media at all.

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XxhumanguineapigxX t1_j7atcaj wrote

Reply to comment by healthierlurker in A new study suggests that too much screen time during infancy may lead to changes in brain activity, as well as problems with executive functioning — the ability to stay focused and control impulses, behaviors, and emotions — in elementary school. by Wagamaga

I don't have kids so it's irrelevant to me, but 2 hours a day doesn't seem like much at all? Maybe I'm mad.

I remember growing up watching a ~20min episode of a cartoon in the morning eating breakfast, then would continue watching 2-3 episodes of whatever was on cartoon network with my brother when we got home from school while mum cooked dinner and washed lunch boxes etc. I'd already be on ~1.5 hours from that alone.

Sometimes after dinner we'd all watch a movie together like Disney, or a few eps of the discovery channel (whole fam was obsessed with crocodile hunter growing up). I will say it wasn't every day - sometimes we played outside on the trampoline, or played with lego etc. But 2 hours across a whole day I guess doesn't feel like much to me!

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