Children: Consuming online time as junk food 

Parents must intervene to stop their children overusing social media and consuming time online “like junk food”, according to a top official.

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Interview:

• In an interview on Saturday, Children’s Commissioner for England Anne Longfield slammed the ways social media giants use to draw children into spending more time.
• She said parents should be proactive in stopping their children from bingeing on the internet in the summer holidays.
• It’s something that every parent will talk about especially during school holidays; that children are in danger of seeing social media like sweeties, and their online time like junk food.
• None of us as parents would want our children to eat junk food all the time.
• “For those same reasons we shouldn’t want our children to do the same with their online time.”
• Last year, industry watchdog Ofcom said the internet overtook television as the most popular media pastime for children in the UK.
• Children aged five to 15 are spending 15 hours a week on the internet.
• A study earlier this year of screen time and mental wellbeing among teenagers suggested.
• That moderate use of devices may be beneficial.
• The research, which appeared in the journal Psychological Science.
• In addition,was based self-reported data from 120,000 15-year-olds in England.

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