Parents in America know the difficulties of pulling their children away from electronic devices, especially after months of virtual learning due to school lockdowns during the pandemic.
About half of America’s young students—8th and 10th graders—spend five hours or more daily on weekends watching videos on an electronic device, and 30 percent spend seven hours or more daily on weekends, according to the 2021 data collected by Monitoring the Future (MtF), a project affiliated with the National Institute of Health.
